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From the Ted Talk by Martine Rothblatt: My daughter, my wife, our robot, and the quest for immortality

Unscramble the Blue Letters


CA: I think Bina's here, right? MR: She is, yeah. CA: Would it be too much, I don't know, do we have a hdeanlhd mic? Bina, could we ivnite you to the stage? I just have to ask you one question. Besides, we need to see you.

(apslaupe)

Thank you, thank you. Come and join mratnie here. I mean, look, when you got married, if someone had told you that, in a few years time, the man you were marrying would become a woman, and a few years after that, you would become a robot — (Laughter) — how has this gone? How has it been?

Bina Rothblatt: It's been really an exciting jnrouey, and I would have never thought that at the time, but we started making goals and setting those goals and accomplishing things, and before you knew it, we just keep going up and up and we're still not stopping, so it's great.

Open Cloze


CA: I think Bina's here, right? MR: She is, yeah. CA: Would it be too much, I don't know, do we have a ________ mic? Bina, could we ______ you to the stage? I just have to ask you one question. Besides, we need to see you.

(________)

Thank you, thank you. Come and join _______ here. I mean, look, when you got married, if someone had told you that, in a few years time, the man you were marrying would become a woman, and a few years after that, you would become a robot — (Laughter) — how has this gone? How has it been?

Bina Rothblatt: It's been really an exciting _______, and I would have never thought that at the time, but we started making goals and setting those goals and accomplishing things, and before you knew it, we just keep going up and up and we're still not stopping, so it's great.

Solution


  1. invite
  2. martine
  3. handheld
  4. journey
  5. applause

Original Text


CA: I think Bina's here, right? MR: She is, yeah. CA: Would it be too much, I don't know, do we have a handheld mic? Bina, could we invite you to the stage? I just have to ask you one question. Besides, we need to see you.

(Applause)

Thank you, thank you. Come and join Martine here. I mean, look, when you got married, if someone had told you that, in a few years time, the man you were marrying would become a woman, and a few years after that, you would become a robot — (Laughter) — how has this gone? How has it been?

Bina Rothblatt: It's been really an exciting journey, and I would have never thought that at the time, but we started making goals and setting those goals and accomplishing things, and before you knew it, we just keep going up and up and we're still not stopping, so it's great.

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Important Words


  1. accomplishing
  2. applause
  3. bina
  4. exciting
  5. goals
  6. great
  7. handheld
  8. invite
  9. join
  10. journey
  11. knew
  12. laughter
  13. making
  14. man
  15. married
  16. marrying
  17. martine
  18. mic
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  20. robot
  21. setting
  22. stage
  23. started
  24. stopping
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  28. woman
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  30. years