영어1 지학 신상근 4과 빈칸

We meet many ____ and build many friendships.

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

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

Sister Carla is an excellent example of such a ____

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

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

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

She added, “I also became a nun because I ____ 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 came to Korea in 1968 after hearing about many war orphans and ____ patients in Korea.

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

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

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

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

She accepted the pain of those patients as ____ own.

Sister ____ wanted to help the Hansen’s patients in as many ways as she could.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As a result, her ____ became severely twisted.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

____ even went grocery shopping for them.

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

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

When asked how to live a valuable life, she replied: “When you live only for ____ benefit of yourself, your joy and happiness 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 can make a ____ 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 ____ towards others can improve our society and also bring us happiness.