공통영어2 YBM 박준언 2과 변형문제

The kitchen ____ makes strange sounds.

It coughs. It spits ____, and then goes silent.

“Mom,” I shout ____ into the living room, “water is not coming out.”

“Alyssa, ____!” Mom says.

She is watching the TV, ____ a news anchor is talking about the “flow crisis.”

This is what the media has ____ calling the drought ever since people got tired of hearing the word “drought.”

Now the crisis is entering a new ____.

We have no ____ water out of the tap.

My ____ brother Garrett and I jump in Uncle’s truck.

As we pull into the parking lot, we can ____ the crowd.

“You two go in. ____ meet you inside,” Uncle Basil says.

Inside it’s like Black Friday at its worst ― but today it’s not televisions and video games ____ are after.

What I see in the carts in the checkout ____ are mostly water bottles. The essentials of life.

There is a look of impatience on the faces of the people in ____.

There is even ____, hidden by a thin layer of politeness.

Even that politeness is ____ thin.

As I approach the back of the store for water bottles, I realize I am too ____.

I manage my ____ to the side aisle, trying my luck.

Sometimes people place unwanted ____ in the wrong shelves.

Lucky! I find a single case of water that someone abandoned there maybe yesterday, when it wasn’t such a precious ____.

I reach for it, only to find it pulled away at the ____ second by a woman.

She stacks it on top of her cart like a crown on ____ of her canned goods.

“I’m sorry, but we were here ____,” she says.

And then her daughter steps ____ ― a girl I recognize from soccer ― Hali Hartling.

As her mother pulls their ____ away, Hali leans closer to me. “I’m sorry about that, Alyssa.”

“Didn’t I share my water with you at the practice ____ week?” I point out to her.

“Maybe you could return the ____ and share a few bottles with me.”

She looks back to her mother, who’s ____ moving down the aisle, then turns back to me shaking her head.

And ____ she gets a little bit red in the face, and turns to leave before it becomes a deep flush.

I look for Garrett, whom I find in the frozen aisle. ____ I see something.

Just past the frozen vegetables and ____ cream, there is a case packed with ice.

I open the door and reach for a ____.

“What are you doing? We need water, not ice,” he ____ me.

“____ is water. Just help me,” I tell him.

Garrett and I put one bag of ice ____ another into our cart, until it is piled as high as it can get.

By now other people have taken notice and begin to empty the ice ____.

The ____ is ridiculously heavy now, and almost impossible to push.

Then, a man in a business ____ comes up behind us.

“____ like you could use some help.”

He ____ wait for us to answer before grabbing the cart’s handle.

“Thank you for ____ us,” I tell him.

“Not a problem. We all need to help ____ another.”

He ____ again, and I return the smile.

It is ____ to know that difficult times can bring out the best in people.

I decide that ____ favor deserves another.

“____ don’t you take a bag of ice for yourself,” I suggest.

His smile does not fade. “I have a better ____,” he says.

“____ don’t you take a bag of ice for yourselves, and I’ll keep the rest.”

For a ____ I think he is joking, but then realize he is serious. “Excuse me?”

He is ____ smiling, but his eyes scare me.

As long as his hands are firmly locked on the handle of our cart, there is nothing to prove that ____ ours and not his.

“Is there a problem here?” It is Uncle Basil. He ____ arrived just in time.

“Not at ____.” The man looks at the ice with a bitter face, then leaves.