공통영어1 비상 홍민표 3과 본문 변형문제

I returned to the Cape ____ Good Hope, South Africa, where I had spent my childhood, after over 20 years of movie-making.

I went diving in the cold ____ off the coast of the Cape, and it was among the dense seaweed 5 forests where I met an octopus.

I saw a fish peacefully swimming near ____ heap of shells.

Suddenly, an octopus ____ from the heap and grabbed the fish.

Amazed at ____ cleverness of the octopus, I swam a little closer, but it disappeared.

In fact, it had lifted a piece of seaweed, wrapped it around itself, ____ was staring at me out of a little gap.

What an ____ extraordinary creature!

I wondered what ____ happen if I kept watching it.

To see the world ____ the octopus’s perspective, I left a camera near the den and started visiting regularly.

I even ____ the environment around the den.

Expecting some ____ to come, I waited.

The octopus became less scared as I visited more ____

After about a ____ it came near me.

____ put my hand out, and it reached out to me.

After another week, it started to wave like a human ____ saying, “Hi, I’m excited to see you.”

I kept still, ____ it covered my whole hand.

____ I had to take a breath, I swam toward the surface.

To my surprise, it ____ on my hand all the way to the top.

____ I was, just staring into the eyes of this incredible creature.

It sparked my curiosity ____ a way that I had not experienced before.

____ I gained its trust?

I started reading books about ____ but I wanted to learn more about this marvelous creature.

The first thing I learned was that “it” was ____ “she.”

Danger in the form of pyjama sharks, the area’s ____ predators, came with little warning in the sea.

The octopus was moving around near the ____ of the seaweed forest, and I saw a shark tracking her.

In an instant, she swam into a crack to escape, but the shark ____ faster.

The shark had taken a bite of one of her arms and was waiting for ____

I wanted to save ____ friend, but in this environment, I could only observe.

She managed to get deeper ____ the crack, but she was bleeding.

After a while, the shark lost interest, and the octopus used the opportunity to get back to her den, without one of ____ arms.

She ____ in serious danger because her arms function like the hands, legs, nose, and eyes of humans.

The next day, I was relieved to see that she ____ survived.

She was ____ and her colors were not as bright.

I checked on her every ____ wondering if that day would be the last.

It was emotionally ____ to witness these things happening to her.

A short while later, I saw that the ____ had healed.

To my amazement, a ____ arm started to grow back, and she started to become active again.

____ started to compare my life to life in the unforgiving sea.

I thought ____ what was valuable in life.

I began to spend more time with ____ family and friends, and I even started to dive with my young son.

He became ____ as interested in her as I was.

As the octopus’s arm became more functional, I felt things in my life were ____ too.

____ octopus’s average life is about a year, which ends after reproducing.

One day, eight months after meeting her, I found her with ____ octopus.

It was bittersweet knowing her ____ days were approaching even though she would bear young.

After mating, she didn’t ____ out of her den.

There would be no feeding ____ hunting.

She ____ timing her final moments for the hatching of her eggs.

____ the eggs hatched, she died.

A few ____ later, my son found a little octopus.

We believe ____ story continues on.

I fell in love with ____ octopus and the amazing wildness she represented.

I built a relationship with her ____ witnessed her life up to the final moments.

I saw ____ from a perspective that I could not have had without this experience.

She was smart, sensitive, and strong, often going through rough and tough ____ just like humans do.

Eventually, she committed herself to protecting the birth ____ her young before she died.

As a ____ being, I found something noble in that sacrifice.

She ____ not simply an octopus; she was a part of this world just as I am a part of it now, and in that sense, we all have our own stories to tell.