영어2 능률 김성곤 2과 변형문제

Try as we might, we cannot stay young ____.

Although this is a truth everyone ____, the thought of becoming old is usually the furthest thing from our minds.

____ why we rarely pay attention to the physical changes that make everyday life challenging for the elderly or the financial difficulties they may experience after retirement.

Many of us consider these problems irrelevant to our lives, so we have little ____ of what it means to be old.

In order to understand the elderly more, 27-year-old Regina Martin and 34-year-old Trent ____ decided to participate in a TV documentary called Switching Ages.

For one month, they transformed themselves into ____ people.

In addition to learning how to ____ and talk like people in their seventies,

Regina and Trent also spent five hours ____ morning putting on make-up to look older.

They even wore heavy ____ suits and contact lenses that hindered their movements and eyesight.

Finally, they wore fake teeth and gray wigs to ____ their aged looks.

Their amazing disguises, however, were only the tip of the iceberg of the ____ they would experience.

Regina Martin has been a passionate ____ instructor for the past three years.

Although she is still a few years ____ from turning 30, Regina is starting to feel even more pressure to retain her looks.

She obsessively takes care of her body and always eats healthy ____.

She has a strong fear of her youth disappearing and feels uncomfortable around ____ people, to the point where she is unwilling to visit her 81-year-old grandmother.

On the first day of her challenge, Regina could only stare at her transformed self in ____.

After a ____ minutes, Regina sighed and said, “This wrinkled face doesn’t look nice.”

Later Regina was sent to a tiny flat in a ____ complex, where she spent several days enduring solitude and gradually adapted to living alone.

As part of the experiment, Regina worked at a grocery store that many ____ people visit.

Thinking that they would be boring and stuffy, she was reluctant to have ____ with them at first.

However, she soon found it very enjoyable to talk with ____.

She met older people ____ still enjoyed bike riding and others who liked playing video games.

At her retirement complex, Regina ____ a companionship group, and she was surprised to find that older people could still fall in love and suffer from broken hearts.

Her new friendships continued to grow stronger over the ____ couple of weeks, and she began to feel as if she were their peer.

As time went on, Regina ____ feeling guilty for deceiving them.

She decided to come clean about her real age to her two ____ elderly friends, Susan and Charlotte, a week before the challenge was over.

She worried that they might feel betrayed ____ her confession, but they just laughed it off and shared some life tips with her to help her enjoy her youth more.

At the ____ of the experiment, Regina said,

“I ____ look at the elderly in the same way that I used to anymore.

I have realized ____ ignorant I was.

I couldn’t ____ that old people are just like me.

Now I can look past their gray hair and wrinkles and see the young people ____ them.

Instead of worrying about my looks fading, I’m now fully embracing the idea of growing ____.”

Before participating in this documentary, ____ had had very little interaction with elderly people except for his 77-year-old grandfather.

He enjoyed his day-to-day ____ without worry and thought it quite satisfying to live in his parents’ house.

During the weekdays, Trent ____ spend his time working part-time at a restaurant.

On the ____, he would play basketball or go shopping with his friends.

In short, Trent had little ambition and little ____ saved up for the furture, but he didn’t care.

As he only lived in the present, Trent never ____ about getting old.

He just ____ the elderly as a strange tribe that he would never join.

Spending a month fully disguised as a 72-year-old man was much more life-changing than Trent ____ have ever imagined.

He could finally see for himself what it was like to live as a ____ citizen in society.

Early in the experiment, Trent ____ to get on a bus to go downtown.

Due to the special body suit and lenses, he had trouble climbing up the ____ of the bus.

Then a person waiting behind him started rushing him, ____ annoyance.

In his hurry to step ____ the bus, Trent almost fell on the stairs.

He was astonished to see the disrespectful attitude toward old people and the way they were ____.

Later he visited the restaurant where he ____ worked, but he noticed that no one paid much attention to him.

____ acted as if he weren’t there.

Trent started to realize what it felt ____ to be invisible.

However, there were some brighter moments that helped ____ have a more cheerful view of growing older.

When Trent took a short trip to Colombia, he encountered a delightful older couple―Andre, 78, and Eunice, 76―who were ____ to learn salsa dancing.

While having a conversation with them, Trent was impressed by the ____ that they were still healthy and content with their lives.

The passion they still had for life inspired Trent to start making some huge changes in his ____.

“I realized life was too short to just sit around and wait for things to happen to me,” he ____.

Now that Trent knows how important it is to plan and save for the future, he ____ decided to find a more stable job and move out of his parents’ house.

Trent has also started to exercise regularly so that he can stay ____ and fully enjoy his golden years in the future.

Living as an older person was a hard experience for both Regina and Trent, but they ____ it an invaluable one.

This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity helped them understand not only the physical changes that older people go ____ but also the way society treats them.

By walking in someone else’s shoes, Regina and Trent were able to see that the ____ also enjoy life with passion.

Moreover, the experience ____ the way they conduct their lives.

They hope that this documentary will help ____ awareness of the problems the elderly continue to face and help young people have a more positive view of growing older.