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From the Ted Talk by Rory Stewart: Time to end the war in Afghanistan
Unscramble the Blue Letters
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Open Cloze
When you're doing mountain rescue, you don't take a doctorate in mountain rescue, you look for somebody who knows the _______. It's about context. You understand that you can prepare, but the amount of ___________ you can do is limited — you can take some water, you can have a map, you can have a pack. But what really matters is two _____ of problems — ________ that occur on the mountain which you couldn't anticipate, such as, for example, ice on a slope, but which you can get around, and problems which you couldn't anticipate and which you can't get around, like a sudden ________ or an avalanche or a change in the weather.
Solution
- kinds
- problems
- blizzard
- preparation
- terrain
Original Text
When you're doing mountain rescue, you don't take a doctorate in mountain rescue, you look for somebody who knows the terrain. It's about context. You understand that you can prepare, but the amount of preparation you can do is limited — you can take some water, you can have a map, you can have a pack. But what really matters is two kinds of problems — problems that occur on the mountain which you couldn't anticipate, such as, for example, ice on a slope, but which you can get around, and problems which you couldn't anticipate and which you can't get around, like a sudden blizzard or an avalanche or a change in the weather.
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