공통영어1 미래엔 김성연 2과 본문 빈칸 테스트

The phone rang, and it was ____ dad calling from my hometown, Waituhi.

“Can you take a week ____ he asked. “Your Nani Tama wants you here.”

“But Dad!” I answered. “My boss won’t let me take ____ more time off.”

The phone went silent, and then ____ heard my grandfather say faintly, “I need your help, Grandson.

I must go to Murupara to ____ inish the whakapapa. Drive me there. Hurry, I may not have much time.”

I just knew I had no ____ “All right, Nani,” I replied with a sigh. “I’ll come.”

For some time, my grandfather had been busy writing down the village genealogy, ____ as the whakapapa.

____ whakapapa had been in his old house.

But then came the night of the fire, which ran through ____ house and destroyed our past.

In only one night, everything we knew was gone. Nani Tama, in despair, went to ____ with his daughter, my Auntie Hiraina.

Trying to find a way out of the ashes of the ____ Nani began to write the whakapapa again with his shaky hands.

He chanted the names of the ancestors, joining the past ____ the present once more.

The village went quiet and listened to his ____

His ____ traveled along the lines of our genealogy, searching back across the centuries.

Sometimes, there were lines that were diff icult ____ remember. Then his voice suddenly stopped in the middle of the chant.

The village waited in worried silence until the next name burst out of his ____

It took Nani Tama almost two years to gather ____ of the whakapapa, but there were still missing names he needed to fill in.

Now, he wanted me ____ drive him to Murupara to finish his work.

When I arrived at Auntie’s place, I was shocked to see how thin Nani Tama ____

“Look, Nani,” I said. “I’m not taking you anywhere. You could die on ____

Nani looked at ____ in anger. “You want me to die here in this room? Looking at these four walls?

When the whakapapa is not yet ____ inished?”

The old man held on tightly to ____ side of the bed and cried out as he stood up.

Every slow, painful step hurt him, but he ____ to walk.

I could not help but carry him to ____ car, and we set off with Auntie.

We traveled all night, mostly in silence, listening to Nani chanting in the ____

It was strange but wonderful to hear him. Sometimes, he burst into a song ____ he had taught Auntie.

They sang ____ lifting up their voices to send the song flying like a bird through the sky.

Just before noon, we arrived at a small ____ called Murupara.

“Where do we go now?” I asked ____

He did not reply, but he was searching inside himself, ____ at the small houses.

Then, at a street ____ he told us to turn.

After ____ the corner, we saw an old man standing in front of a house.

He welcomed Nani Tama with ____ gentle smile, but in his eyes, I saw the message, “We must hurry.”

Now that day seems ____ a dream to me.

I remember the two old men sitting ____ the table and the soft sounds of the Maori words as they talked.

All through the quiet ____ and into the evening, they recalled missing names.

I had ____ strange feeling that there were other people in the room.

I felt as if people from the past were looking ____ the shoulders of the two old men to see if the work was correct.

Finally, they stopped. It ____ done. After a moment of silence, the old man whispered to Nani, “Goodbye, friend.”

____ they pressed their noses together to say goodbye.

It was ____ morning and still dark when we returned to Auntie’s place.

All the lights were on, and ____ village people were waiting for us.

Smiling, Nani Tama lifted ____ the whakapapa and offered it to the village.

Our hearts were ____ because our grandfather had saved our past for us.

Our Nani ____ smiled again. His smile grew tired.

He sighed. “At last, I may go ____ Then, he closed his eyes.

“No, Dad!” Auntie Hiraina cried. The sun burst ____ the hills.