공통영어1 미래엔 김성연 2과 변형문제

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

“Can you take a ____ off?” he asked.

“Your Nani Tama wants you here.” “But ____!” I answered.

“My boss won’t let me take any more ____ off.”

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

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

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

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

The whakapapa ____ been in his old house.

But then ____ the night of the fire, which ran through the 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 f ind a ____ out of the ashes of the past, Nani began to write the whakapapa again with his shaky hands.

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

The village went quiet and ____ to his chanting.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nani looked at me in anger. “____ want me to die here in this room?

____ at these four walls? When the whakapapa is not yet f inished?”

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

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

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

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

It was strange but wonderful to hear him. Sometimes, he burst ____ 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 ____, we arrived at a small town called Murupara.

“____ do we go now?” I asked Nani.

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

Then, at a street corner, he told us to turn. After turning the corner, we saw an ____ man standing in front of a house.

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

Now that day seems like a ____ to me.

I remember the ____ old men sitting at 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 a strange feeling that there were other people in the ____.

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

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

Crying, they pressed their ____ together to say goodbye.

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

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

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

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

Our Nani Tama smiled again. His smile grew ____.

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

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