공통영어2 YBM 박준언 2과 변형문제

The kitchen tap makes ____ sounds.

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

“Mom,” I shout out into the living ____, “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 ____ been calling the drought ever since people got tired of hearing the word “drought.”

Now the crisis is entering a ____ stage.

We have no running water out of the ____.

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

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

“You two go in. I’ll ____ you inside,” Uncle Basil says.

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

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

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

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

____ that politeness is stretched thin.

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

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

Sometimes people ____ unwanted items in the wrong shelves.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ____ in the frozen aisle. Then I see something.

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

I ____ the door and reach for a bag.

“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 ____ notice and begin to empty the ice case.

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

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

“Looks like you could use some ____.”

He doesn’t wait for us to answer before ____ the cart’s handle.

“Thank you for ____ us,” I tell him.

“____ a problem. We all need to help one another.”

He ____ again, and I return the smile.

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

I ____ that one favor deserves another.

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

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

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

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

He is ____ smiling, but his eyes scare me.

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

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

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