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From the Ted Talk by Rick Smolan: The story of a girl

Unscramble the Blue Letters


This is the last pctuire before Gene and Tim headed back. The adoption people told us it was going to take a year for the adoption to go through. Like, what could you do for a year? So I found out the name of every official on both the keaorn and aiarcemn side, and I photographed them, and told them how famous they were going to be when this book was done. And four months later, the aptdioon papers came through. This is saying goodbye to everybody at the ohgrnapae. This is Father Keane with Natasha at the bus stop. Her great aunt at the airport. I had a wonderful deal with Cathay Pacific airlines for many yraes, where they gave me free pessas on all their airlines in return for photography. It was like the ultimate perk. And the ploit, I actually knew — because they used to let me sit in the jump seat, to tell you how long ago this was. This is a TriStar, and so they let Natasha actually sit in the jump seat. And the pilot, Jeff Cowley, actually went back and atpeodd one of the other kids at the orphanage after meeting ntaahsa.

Open Cloze


This is the last _______ before Gene and Tim headed back. The adoption people told us it was going to take a year for the adoption to go through. Like, what could you do for a year? So I found out the name of every official on both the ______ and ________ side, and I photographed them, and told them how famous they were going to be when this book was done. And four months later, the ________ papers came through. This is saying goodbye to everybody at the _________. This is Father Keane with Natasha at the bus stop. Her great aunt at the airport. I had a wonderful deal with Cathay Pacific airlines for many _____, where they gave me free ______ on all their airlines in return for photography. It was like the ultimate perk. And the _____, I actually knew — because they used to let me sit in the jump seat, to tell you how long ago this was. This is a TriStar, and so they let Natasha actually sit in the jump seat. And the pilot, Jeff Cowley, actually went back and _______ one of the other kids at the orphanage after meeting _______.

Solution


  1. natasha
  2. picture
  3. pilot
  4. passes
  5. years
  6. orphanage
  7. korean
  8. american
  9. adopted
  10. adoption

Original Text


This is the last picture before Gene and Tim headed back. The adoption people told us it was going to take a year for the adoption to go through. Like, what could you do for a year? So I found out the name of every official on both the Korean and American side, and I photographed them, and told them how famous they were going to be when this book was done. And four months later, the adoption papers came through. This is saying goodbye to everybody at the orphanage. This is Father Keane with Natasha at the bus stop. Her great aunt at the airport. I had a wonderful deal with Cathay Pacific airlines for many years, where they gave me free passes on all their airlines in return for photography. It was like the ultimate perk. And the pilot, I actually knew — because they used to let me sit in the jump seat, to tell you how long ago this was. This is a TriStar, and so they let Natasha actually sit in the jump seat. And the pilot, Jeff Cowley, actually went back and adopted one of the other kids at the orphanage after meeting Natasha.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
father keane 6
showing natasha 3
time magazine 2
pearl buck 2
buck foundation 2
sleeping bag 2
started crying 2
mental picture 2
united states 2
older kids 2
younger kids 2
adoption papers 2
flames coming 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
pearl buck foundation 2

Important Words


  1. adopted
  2. adoption
  3. airlines
  4. airport
  5. american
  6. aunt
  7. book
  8. bus
  9. cathay
  10. cowley
  11. deal
  12. famous
  13. father
  14. free
  15. gave
  16. gene
  17. goodbye
  18. great
  19. headed
  20. jeff
  21. jump
  22. keane
  23. kids
  24. knew
  25. korean
  26. long
  27. meeting
  28. months
  29. natasha
  30. official
  31. orphanage
  32. pacific
  33. papers
  34. passes
  35. people
  36. perk
  37. photographed
  38. photography
  39. picture
  40. pilot
  41. return
  42. seat
  43. side
  44. sit
  45. stop
  46. tim
  47. told
  48. tristar
  49. ultimate
  50. wonderful
  51. year
  52. years