영어1 지학 신상근 4과 빈칸

We meet many people and build ____ friendships.

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

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

Sister Carla is an excellent ____ of such a person.

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

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

“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 wanted to fulfill the dream of my late brother, who wanted to become a priest but passed away ____ he could.”

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

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

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

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

For Sister Carla, however, ____ patients were equally noble human beings.

She accepted the ____ of those patients as her own.

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

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

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

She struggled with the language at first, but after about two years, she was ____ 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 disease and earn a ____ 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 ____ of medicine, but the prejudice towards the Hansen’s patients.

Because of that, the children of Hansen’s patients were ____ accepted by normal schools,” Sister Carla said.

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

Otherwise, more than a hundred children ____ have received proper education.

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

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

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

Sister Carla did her ____ 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 disease properly because she was busy working for her ____.

As a ____, her toes became severely twisted.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

She even went grocery shopping for ____.

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

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

When asked how to live a valuable life, she replied: “When ____ live only for the 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 difference and that through our actions we can bring ____ 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 ____.