영어1 천재 강상구 5과 본문 빈칸

Long ago, two strangers traveled ____ a certain district, asking for food and shelter as they went.

For a long time, they found ____ but refusals from both the rich and the poor.

____ they came to a little cottage where a poor old couple, Baucis and Philemon, lived.

The two had little to offer since they lived entirely from the produce ____ their small piece of land, a goose, and a few goats and pigs.

Nevertheless, they were prompt to ask the strangers in and to ____ their best before them.

They ____ their chairs forward for their guests.

Philemon put a piece of broken pot under ____ table leg, and Baucis rubbed the table top with fresh mint and set some water over the fire.

They set out ____ best delicacies on the table.

There were fresh vegetables baked ____ the fire as well as wine.

There was a ____ bowl in the middle of the table to mix the wine with water.

The second course had ____ be fruit, and there were nuts, dried dates, grapes, and apples, for it was their best season of the year.

Baucis even had it in mind to kill their only goose for dinner, and there was a great squawking that ____ on for a long time.

Poor old Baucis wore ____ out trying to catch that goose, but somehow the animal always got away from her, until the guests made her let it be, for they had been well served so far.

It was a good meal, and ____ old couple continued to encourage their visitors to eat and drink, not caring that they were now consuming in one day what would ordinarily have lasted a week.

At ____ the wine sank low in the mixing bowl, and Philemon rose to get some more.

He was astonished to find the bowl full again, as if it had never been ____ before.

Then he whispered to Baucis that the two strangers must be gods, and Baucis also was awed and ____

However, the gods smiled kindly at them and identified themselves as ____ and Hermes.

Hermes said, “Both of you welcomed us beneath your roof this day when others ____ us shelter.

Be sure those shall be punished who would ____ help the wandering strangers, but you shall have whatever reward you choose.

Tell us what you will ____

____ old man thought for a little while with his eyes bent on the ground, and then he said:

“We have lived happily together here for many ____ even though the times have been hard.

But never have we turned strangers away or asked ____ a reward for entertaining them.

To have spoken with the immortals ____ to face is a thing few men can boast of.

In this small cottage, humble though it is, the ____ have sat at meal.

Neither this place nor we deserve the ____

If, therefore, you will do something for us, turn this ____ into a temple where the gods may always be served and where we may live out the rest of our days.”

____ have spoken well,” said Hermes, “and you shall have your wish.

Yet is there ____ anything that you would desire for yourselves?”

At this, the husband glanced over at old Baucis ____ her thin, gray hair and her rough hands.

Baucis said, “We have lived together for many years, and in all ____ time never has there been a word of anger between us.

Now, at last, we are growing old and our long companionship is coming to an ____

Grant us this one request, that when we come to die, we may perish in the same hour, so that neither of us would be left without the ____

She looked at Philemon, and he nodded in approval, so the old couple turned their eyes on ____ gods.

“It shall be as you desire,” said ____

“Few would have made such a good and ____ request.”

Before long, the house became a temple, and the neighbors, amazed at the change, often came to worship ____ left offerings for the gods.

____ many years, Baucis and Philemon lived in peace, passing from old to extreme old age.

At last, they were so ____ and bowed that it seemed they could only walk if they clung to each other.

One evening, it took them longer than ever to reach the usual spot ____ would visit every day to look at the temple.

There they held each ____ arms, thinking that it was perhaps the last time their limbs would support them.

As they stood, each one felt the other change and only had time to turn and say “Farewell,” ____ they lost their human shapes completely.

Now there stood two ____ trees growing closely side by side with the branches intertwined.

They swayed in the passing breeze ____ if they nodded and whispered to each other.