영어1 지학 신상근 4과 빈칸

We meet many people and build many ____.

We sometimes meet ____ individuals who sacrifice themselves for those in need.

It’s their ____ routine to help others, and they even put others before themselves.

Sister Carla is an ____ example of such a person.

Often called the ____ with blue eyes, she devoted her life to caring for patients with Hansen’s disease in the remote village of Hoam, Gochang, Jeollabuk-do.

Born in Bernezzo, Italy in 1943, Sister Carla became a nun at the ____ of 19 and ended up caring for more than 120 war orphans.

“I thought that ____ of starting a family and caring for my own children only, I could devote my life to caring for more children.”

She ____, “I also became a nun because I wanted to fulfill the dream of my late brother, who wanted to become a priest but passed away before he could.”

The 25-year-old Sister Carla ____ to Korea in 1968 after hearing about many war orphans and Hansen’s patients in Korea.

Back then, people excluded Hansen’s ____ from the general public due to various prejudices.

People falsely believed that Hansen’s disease was highly contagious, and also felt ____ with the appearance of Hansen’s patients.

____ was the place for those patients, and their miserable lives were passed on to their own children.

For Sister Carla, ____, Hansen’s patients were equally noble human beings.

She accepted the pain of those patients as her ____.

Sister Carla wanted to help the ____ patients in as many ways as she could.

She raised pigs with the patients to help them ____ economically independent.

She ____ to learn Korean so she could understand each individual’s problems more deeply.

She struggled with the language at first, but after ____ two years, she was able to communicate with local people freely and truly understand the patients’ specific challenges.

Additionally, she went to a hospital in Spain to study Hansen’s ____ and earn a nurse’s assistant certification.

When she first began ____ Hansen’s patients, she was able to treat them with only the small amount of medicine she received from German aid agencies.

“The saddest thing at the time was not the fact that there was a lack of medicine, but the ____ towards the Hansen’s patients.

Because of that, the children of Hansen’s patients were not ____ by normal schools,” Sister Carla said.

So she founded a school for the ____ of Hansen’s patients in the village.

Otherwise, more than a hundred children wouldn’t have received ____ education.

Her love for the Hansen’s patients is also reflected in her Korean name, “____ Kalla.”

She adopted the Korean family name “Kang” when the first patient she met at the Hoam Village ____ her, “I would really like you to use my family name.”

As her personal ____, she decided to use “Kalla,” which is the Korean pronunciation of her Catholic name, “Carla.”

Sister Carla did her best to be there for anyone who needed her help, but sadly she didn’t have enough time to care for ____.

She developed ____ but didn’t treat the disease properly because she was busy working for her patients.

As a result, her toes ____ severely twisted.

Her twisted toes reminded her neighbors of ginger ____, and so they called her toes “ginger feet.”

She devoted everything she had to the sick, ____, and poor while she lived very frugally.

She wore a 30-year-old watch on her wrist and kept two pencils shorter than her little finger on her ____.

Additionally, Sister ____ lived in the same tiny home for over 50 years.

Sister Carla, just like everyone else in ____ Village, grew old.

The beautiful 25-year-old ____ aged into a grandma with silver hair.

Although many things ____, Sister Carla’s desire to sacrifice for others didn’t.

In addition to helping the surviving Hansen’s patients, she continued to care for the elderly every ____.

Even in her old age, she took them to the ____, did their dishes, and took care of problems at the bank for them.

She even ____ grocery shopping for them.

She used every ____ of her time for those in need.

She continued working in the community, running a pottery-making program, and ____ pottery to help senior citizens in poor neighborhoods.

When asked how to live a valuable life, she replied: “When you live only for the benefit of yourself, your joy and ____ become that much smaller. But when you open your heart to other people, it changes your life.”

Sister Carla’s extraordinary life reminds us that we all ____ make a difference and that through our actions we can bring about a positive change in the lives of those who need help most.

As she said, being respectful, caring, and supportive towards others can improve our society and also bring us ____.