공통영어1 미래엔 김성연 2과 본문 빈칸 테스트

The phone rang, and it was my dad calling ____ my hometown, Waituhi.

“Can you take a week off?” he asked. “Your Nani ____ wants you here.”

“But Dad!” I answered. “My boss won’t let me take any more ____ off.”

The phone went silent, and then I heard my grandfather say faintly, “I need your ____, Grandson.

I ____ go to Murupara to f inish the whakapapa. Drive me there. Hurry, I may not have much time.”

I just knew I had no choice. “All right, Nani,” I replied with a ____. “I’ll come.”

For some time, my grandfather had been busy writing down the village ____, known as the whakapapa.

The whakapapa ____ been in his old house.

But then came the night of the fire, which ____ through the house and destroyed our past.

In only one night, everything we knew was gone. Nani Tama, in despair, went to stay with his daughter, my Auntie ____.

Trying to find a way out of the ____ of the past, Nani began to write the whakapapa again with his shaky hands.

He chanted the names of the ancestors, joining the past to the ____ once more.

The village went quiet and listened to his ____.

His ____ traveled along the lines of our genealogy, searching back across the centuries.

Sometimes, there were lines that were diff icult to remember. Then his voice suddenly stopped in the middle of the ____.

The ____ waited in worried silence until the next name burst out of his mouth.

It took Nani Tama almost two years to gather most of the whakapapa, but ____ were still missing names he needed to fill in.

Now, he wanted me to drive him to Murupara to finish his ____.

When I ____ at Auntie’s place, I was shocked to see how thin Nani Tama was.

“____, Nani,” I said. “I’m not taking you anywhere. You could die on me!”

Nani looked at me in anger. “You want me to die here in this room? Looking at these four ____?

When the whakapapa is not yet f ____?”

The old man held on tightly to the side of the ____ and cried out as he stood up.

Every slow, painful step ____ him, but he tried to walk.

I could not help but carry him to the car, and we set off with ____.

We traveled ____ night, mostly in silence, listening to Nani chanting in the darkness.

It was strange but wonderful to hear him. ____, he burst into a song that he had taught Auntie.

They sang together, lifting up their voices to send the ____ flying like a bird through the sky.

Just ____ noon, we arrived at a small town called Murupara.

“Where do we go now?” I ____ Nani.

He did not reply, but he was searching inside ____, staring at the small houses.

Then, at a street ____, he told us to turn.

After turning the ____, we saw an old man standing in front of a house.

He welcomed Nani Tama with a gentle smile, but in his eyes, I saw the ____, “We must hurry.”

Now that ____ seems like a dream to me.

I remember the two old men sitting at the table and the soft sounds of the Maori ____ as they talked.

All through the quiet ____ and into the evening, they recalled missing names.

I ____ a strange feeling that there were other people in the room.

I felt as if people from the past were looking ____ the shoulders of the two old men to see if the work was correct.

Finally, they stopped. It was done. After a moment of ____, the old man whispered to Nani, “Goodbye, friend.”

Crying, they pressed their noses ____ to say goodbye.

It was ____ morning and still dark when we returned to Auntie’s place.

All the lights were on, and the village people were ____ for us.

Smiling, Nani Tama lifted up the ____ and offered it to the village.

Our hearts were full because our ____ had saved our past for us.

Our Nani Tama smiled again. His ____ grew tired.

He sighed. “At ____, I may go now.” Then, he closed his eyes.

“No, Dad!” Auntie Hiraina cried. The sun burst across the ____.