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From the Ted Talk by Matilda Ho: The future of good food in China

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I was six when I had the first cachne to learn what painecte maens. My grandmother gave me a mgiac box as a birthday pesrnet, which neither of us knew would become a gift for life. I became obsessed with magic, and at 20, I became an amateur dove magician. This act of magic requires that I train my deovs to sit and wait inside my clothing. As a yonug magician, I was always in a rush to make them appear, but my teacher told me the secret to the success of this magical act is to make my doves appear only after they've waited patiently in my tuxedo. It has to be a mindful kind of patience, the kind that took me some years to master.

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I was six when I had the first ______ to learn what ________ _____. My grandmother gave me a _____ box as a birthday _______, which neither of us knew would become a gift for life. I became obsessed with magic, and at 20, I became an amateur dove magician. This act of magic requires that I train my _____ to sit and wait inside my clothing. As a _____ magician, I was always in a rush to make them appear, but my teacher told me the secret to the success of this magical act is to make my doves appear only after they've waited patiently in my tuxedo. It has to be a mindful kind of patience, the kind that took me some years to master.

Solution


  1. young
  2. magic
  3. chance
  4. means
  5. present
  6. patience
  7. doves

Original Text


I was six when I had the first chance to learn what patience means. My grandmother gave me a magic box as a birthday present, which neither of us knew would become a gift for life. I became obsessed with magic, and at 20, I became an amateur dove magician. This act of magic requires that I train my doves to sit and wait inside my clothing. As a young magician, I was always in a rush to make them appear, but my teacher told me the secret to the success of this magical act is to make my doves appear only after they've waited patiently in my tuxedo. It has to be a mindful kind of patience, the kind that took me some years to master.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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mindful patience 2
sustainable food 2
food system 2
good food 2

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Important Words


  1. act
  2. amateur
  3. birthday
  4. box
  5. chance
  6. clothing
  7. dove
  8. doves
  9. gave
  10. gift
  11. grandmother
  12. kind
  13. knew
  14. learn
  15. life
  16. magic
  17. magical
  18. magician
  19. master
  20. means
  21. mindful
  22. obsessed
  23. patience
  24. patiently
  25. present
  26. requires
  27. rush
  28. secret
  29. sit
  30. success
  31. teacher
  32. told
  33. train
  34. tuxedo
  35. wait
  36. waited
  37. years
  38. young