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 ____ wants you here.”

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

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

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

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

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

The whakapapa had been in his ____ house.

But then came the night of the fire, ____ 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.

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

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

The village went ____ and listened to his chanting.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When the whakapapa is ____ yet f inished?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Where do we go now?” I asked ____.

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

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

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

He welcomed ____ Tama with a gentle smile, but in his eyes, I saw the message, “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 words as they ____.

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

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

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

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

Crying, they pressed their noses ____ to say goodbye.

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

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 grandfather had saved our ____ for us.

Our ____ Tama smiled again. His smile grew tired.

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

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