영어1 천재 강상구 5과 본문 빈칸

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

For a long time, they found nothing but refusals from both the rich and the ____.

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

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

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

They ____ their chairs forward for their guests.

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

They set ____ their best delicacies on the table.

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

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

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

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

Poor old Baucis wore herself ____ 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 the old couple continued to encourage their ____ to eat and drink, not caring that they were now consuming in one day what would ordinarily have lasted a week.

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

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

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

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

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

Be ____ those shall be punished who would not help the wandering strangers, but you shall have whatever reward you choose.

Tell us what you ____ have.”

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

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

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

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

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

Neither this place ____ we deserve the honor.

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

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

Yet is there not anything that ____ would desire for yourselves?”

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

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

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

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 ____ the other.”

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

“It shall be as you ____,” said Hermes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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