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From the Ted Talk by Amy Tan: Where does creativity hide?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


But you alppy this. You begin to look at things having to do with your tensions. Your btohrer, who's fallen in trouble, do you take care of him? Why or why not? It may be something that is perhaps more serious — as I said, human rights in Burma. I was thinking that I shouldn't go because somebody said, if I did, it would show that I approved of the military regime there. And then, after a while, I had to ask myself, "Why do we take on knowledge, why do we take on assumptions that other people have given us?" And it was the same thing that I felt when I was growing up, and was hearing these relus of moral conduct from my father, who was a Baptist mitsneir. So I deidced that I would go to Burma for my own intentions, and still didn't know that if I went there, what the result of that would be, if I wrote a book — and I just would have to face that later, when the time came.

Open Cloze


But you _____ this. You begin to look at things having to do with your tensions. Your _______, who's fallen in trouble, do you take care of him? Why or why not? It may be something that is perhaps more serious — as I said, human rights in Burma. I was thinking that I shouldn't go because somebody said, if I did, it would show that I approved of the military regime there. And then, after a while, I had to ask myself, "Why do we take on knowledge, why do we take on assumptions that other people have given us?" And it was the same thing that I felt when I was growing up, and was hearing these _____ of moral conduct from my father, who was a Baptist ________. So I _______ that I would go to Burma for my own intentions, and still didn't know that if I went there, what the result of that would be, if I wrote a book — and I just would have to face that later, when the time came.

Solution


  1. minister
  2. decided
  3. apply
  4. rules
  5. brother

Original Text


But you apply this. You begin to look at things having to do with your tensions. Your brother, who's fallen in trouble, do you take care of him? Why or why not? It may be something that is perhaps more serious — as I said, human rights in Burma. I was thinking that I shouldn't go because somebody said, if I did, it would show that I approved of the military regime there. And then, after a while, I had to ask myself, "Why do we take on knowledge, why do we take on assumptions that other people have given us?" And it was the same thing that I felt when I was growing up, and was hearing these rules of moral conduct from my father, who was a Baptist minister. So I decided that I would go to Burma for my own intentions, and still didn't know that if I went there, what the result of that would be, if I wrote a book — and I just would have to face that later, when the time came.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. apply
  2. approved
  3. assumptions
  4. baptist
  5. book
  6. brother
  7. burma
  8. care
  9. conduct
  10. decided
  11. face
  12. fallen
  13. father
  14. felt
  15. growing
  16. hearing
  17. human
  18. intentions
  19. knowledge
  20. military
  21. minister
  22. moral
  23. people
  24. regime
  25. result
  26. rights
  27. rules
  28. show
  29. tensions
  30. thinking
  31. time
  32. trouble
  33. wrote