공통영어1 미래엔 김성연 2과 본문 빈칸 테스트

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

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

“But Dad!” I answered. “My boss ____ let me take any more time off.”

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

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

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

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

The whakapapa had ____ in his old house.

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

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

____ to find a way out of the ashes 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 present once ____.

The village went quiet and listened to his ____.

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

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

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

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

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

When I arrived at ____ place, I was shocked to see how thin Nani Tama was.

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

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

When the ____ is not yet f inished?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Where do we go ____?” I asked Nani.

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

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

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

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

____ that day seems like a dream to me.

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

All through the quiet afternoon and ____ 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 over the shoulders of the two old men to see if the ____ was correct.

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

Crying, they ____ their noses together to say goodbye.

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

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

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

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

Our Nani Tama smiled ____. His smile grew tired.

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

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