공통영어1 미래엔 김성연 2과 본문 빈칸 테스트

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The whakapapa had been in his ____ house.

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

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

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

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

The village went quiet and listened to ____ chanting.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

____ the whakapapa is not yet f inished?”

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

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

I could ____ help but carry him to the car, and we set off with Auntie.

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

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

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

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

“Where do we go now?” I asked ____

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

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

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

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

____ that day seems like a dream to me.

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

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

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

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

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

Crying, ____ pressed their noses together to say goodbye.

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

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

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

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

Our ____ Tama smiled again. His smile grew tired.

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

“No, ____ Auntie Hiraina cried. The sun burst across the hills.