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From the Ted Talk by Aimee Mullins: Changing my legs - and my mindset

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Everyone was taking pictures — "What is this girl running on?" And I'm always looking around, like, where is my competition? It's my first international meet. I tried to get it out of anybody I could, you know, "Who am I rnunnig against here?" "Oh, Aimee, we'll have to get back to you on that one." I wanted to find out times. "Don't wrroy, you're doing great." This is 20 mnuites before my race in the Olympic stadium, and they post the heat steehs. And I go over and look. And my fastest time, which was the world record, was 15.77. Then I'm looking: the next lane, lane two, is 12.8. Lane three is 12.5. Lane four is 12.2. I said, "What's going on?" And they shove us all into the shltute bus, and all the women there are missing a hand.

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Everyone was taking pictures — "What is this girl running on?" And I'm always looking around, like, where is my competition? It's my first international meet. I tried to get it out of anybody I could, you know, "Who am I _______ against here?" "Oh, Aimee, we'll have to get back to you on that one." I wanted to find out times. "Don't _____, you're doing great." This is 20 _______ before my race in the Olympic stadium, and they post the heat ______. And I go over and look. And my fastest time, which was the world record, was 15.77. Then I'm looking: the next lane, lane two, is 12.8. Lane three is 12.5. Lane four is 12.2. I said, "What's going on?" And they shove us all into the _______ bus, and all the women there are missing a hand.

Solution


  1. minutes
  2. sheets
  3. worry
  4. shuttle
  5. running

Original Text


Everyone was taking pictures — "What is this girl running on?" And I'm always looking around, like, where is my competition? It's my first international meet. I tried to get it out of anybody I could, you know, "Who am I running against here?" "Oh, Aimee, we'll have to get back to you on that one." I wanted to find out times. "Don't worry, you're doing great." This is 20 minutes before my race in the Olympic stadium, and they post the heat sheets. And I go over and look. And my fastest time, which was the world record, was 15.77. Then I'm looking: the next lane, lane two, is 12.8. Lane three is 12.5. Lane four is 12.2. I said, "What's going on?" And they shove us all into the shuttle bus, and all the women there are missing a hand.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
long jump 3
gravel track 2
track team 2
olympic athlete 2


Important Words


  1. aimee
  2. bus
  3. competition
  4. fastest
  5. find
  6. girl
  7. great
  8. hand
  9. heat
  10. international
  11. lane
  12. meet
  13. minutes
  14. missing
  15. olympic
  16. pictures
  17. post
  18. race
  19. record
  20. running
  21. sheets
  22. shove
  23. shuttle
  24. stadium
  25. time
  26. times
  27. wanted
  28. women
  29. world
  30. worry