공통영어1 천재 조수경 3과 변형문제

There is a Korean man who became ____ chief of a Nigerian tribe for making huge contributions to Nigeria’s agriculture and economy. Here is his story.

Dr. Hahn is an agriculturist who specialized in plant ____

Growing up right after the Korean war, he knew ____ it was like to be hungry, and he wanted to help people in need.

In 1971, he was given two opportunities: work for Cambridge ____ or for the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Nigeria.

On his way to Cambridge for a job ____ he first stopped in Nigeria.

There, he saw the country had been destroyed by a civil ____

More than 2 million people ____ died, and more than half a million people were starving.

Dr. Hahn wanted to rescue ____ from hunger.

So, ____ persuaded his family and moved to Nigeria.

When Dr. Hahn got there, he learned that the staple food ____ Nigeria was a plant called cassava.

Unfortunately, cassava was defenseless against viral ____ bacterial diseases, so it did not yield much crop.

Knowing this, he decided to develop ____ cassava varieties with higher yields.

____ Dr. Hahn faced a problem: there was not much information available about cassava.

Cassava was rarely studied ____ developed because it was not a cash crop.

To make matters worse, ____ had never seen or eaten cassava before.

While studying ____ cassava, Dr. Hahn found out that the Europeans who colonized Brazil had first brought cassava into Africa.

He immediately flew to Brazil to study the ____ cassava.

There, he learned about it and ____ back to Nigeria with Brazilian cassava seeds.

Then, Dr. Hahn traveled to ____ corner of Nigeria and collected different types of local cassava to see if they were good at fighting diseases, but they weren’t.

Fortunately, he found ____ plant that was similar to cassava but resistant to diseases.

He started crossing this plant ____ the Brazilian cassava.

After five years of hard work, Dr. Hahn finally succeeded in developing new ____ of cassava.

They yielded much more than the local ones ____ could survive diseases.

Another obstacle Dr. Hahn faced was distributing the new ____

Local farmers would not ____ to a foreigner.

To overcome this problem, Dr. Hahn ____ markets, churches, and schools and gave out the new varieties to Nigerian people for free.

He went ____ one house to the next to let farmers know the superiority of these new varieties.

Sometimes he planted them in the middle of the cassava field without ____ the farmers.

His colleagues were concerned that ____ farmers might be angry to find different cassava in their fields.

However, Dr. Hahn insisted that the farmers would think that it was a gift from ____

He was right. The farmers soon realized the superiority of the new varieties, and more and ____ farmers started to cultivate them.

Thanks to the new cassava, fewer people were ____

In fact, ____ could even make more money by selling the remaining cassava.

Eventually, Nigeria became the ____ that produced the greatest amount of cassava in the world.

In 1983, the Yoruba, a major tribe of Nigeria, honored Dr. Hahn as a chief with the ____ “Seriki Agbe” or “the King of Farmers.”

In addition to cassava, Dr. Hahn developed other major foods, including ____ sweet potato, and banana.

Soon, other ____ countries asked for his help.

Dr. Hahn traveled to these countries to teach local farmers and scholars how to grow these ____ varieties.

He spent 23 years developing and distributing the new ____ varieties to the whole continent.

Although he left Nigeria in 1994, he is still remembered as one of the ____ scientists who fought against starvation in Africa.

Dr. Hahn once said, “If you have faith that what you do will benefit humanity, I believe that you must ____ yourself.

Even if I were ____ go back to the past, I would still do the same thing.”