공통영어2 YBM 박준언 2과 변형문제

The kitchen tap makes ____ sounds.

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

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

“Alyssa, shush!” ____ says.

She is watching the TV, where a news anchor is talking about the “flow ____

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

Now the crisis is entering a new ____

We have ____ running water out of the tap.

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

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

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

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

What ____ see in the carts in the checkout 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 layer of ____

Even that politeness is ____ thin.

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

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

Sometimes people place unwanted ____ in the wrong shelves.

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

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

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

____ sorry, but we were here first,” she says.

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

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

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

“Maybe you could ____ 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 then she gets a little bit red in the face, and turns ____ leave before it becomes a deep flush.

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

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

I open the ____ and reach for a bag.

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

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

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

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

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

Then, a man in a business suit comes up behind ____

“Looks like you ____ use some help.”

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

“Thank you ____ helping us,” I tell him.

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

He smiles again, and ____ return the smile.

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

I ____ that one favor deserves another.

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

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

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

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

He is still smiling, but his eyes scare ____

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

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

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