영어1 천재 강상구 5과 본문 빈칸

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

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

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

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

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

They pulled ____ 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 some water over ____ fire.

They set out their ____ delicacies on the table.

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

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

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

Baucis even had it in mind to kill their ____ goose for dinner, and there was a great 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 visitors to eat ____ 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 ____ mixing bowl, and Philemon rose to get some more.

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

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

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

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

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

Tell us what you will ____

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

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

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

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

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

Neither this place nor we ____ the honor.

If, ____ you will do something for us, turn this cottage 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 not anything that ____ would desire for yourselves?”

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

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

Now, at last, we are growing old and our long companionship is coming ____ 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 without the ____

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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