One bright summer day , a number of little boys and girls were out walking with their teacher. They walked two by two, singing happily.

　　In their walk they came to a 1 over the river, and they turned to go across it. They had just reached the middle 2 there came a great shout behind them. The teacher told them to stop , and she 3 and listened. When she 4 the cry “Mad dog !” she knew 5 was happening. Before she could do 6 she saw the dog running to the bridge.

　　“Children,” said the teacher, “keep 7 the wall of the bridge. Don't 8 or cry.” Then she went and stood before the boys and girls 9 the dog would meet her first.

　　The animal came , his mouth widely open. The animal ran up 10 , and seemed to be going by, but when he had just passed the 11 , he made a snap （猛咬） at 12 of the little girls. At this moment, the teacher saw a man running up with a gun to 13 the dog. The children must be kept 14 until the man could come up. So she ran to the dog, and put her right hand into the animal's 15 . When the man came near enough, he shot the animal 16 .

　　The dog had bitten her so 17 that the brave lady died soon after the doctors came. She had given 18 her own life to save the lives of the children. When people 19 it , they loved her for her bravery. They said, “The 20 of this brave lady should never be forgotten.”

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It was just getting dark. There was a touch of fog and I was on a lonely stretch of road.   36 I was going along cheerfully, thinking about the dinner I would eat when I got to Salistury .

I was going along   37 at about thirty-five miles an hour when suddenly I heard a scream, a  38 scream--- “ Help! ” I looked round, but the only   39 of life was a large, black, rather suspicious--looking（可疑的）car just   40  a bend in the road about a hundred yards away. That was where the cry had come from. I   41  speed and went after it. I think the driver saw what I was doing, for he did the same and began to draw   42  me. As I drew near, the girl’s voice came again, a lovely voice but trembling with   43  .

“Let me go, you coward; you’re hurting me. Oh ! Oh ! ”

I felt my   44  boil. The fog was coming down   45  now, and the countryside was lonelier. I had no  46 that the murderous guy in the car noticed this. Again came a cry.

“Drop that knife, you fool. Oh ! ” Then a cry and a groan（呻吟）.

If I was to save her, it was now or   47 . Perhaps even now I was too late. But if I couldn’t save the girl, I would at least try to bring the murderer to   48 . The car was only a couple of yards away now. I drove the bike right across its   49 , and its brakes（刹车）screamed as the driver tried to pull it over and  50  into the ditch（沟）at the side of the road. The door of the car was pushed open angrily and a dark, evil-looking fellow stepped out .

“You fool!” he shouted as he came towards me with his fist raised to hit me. But I was   51   than he. I put all I could into   52  that would have knocked out Joe Louis. It   53  him right on the point of the chin; his   54  slowly bent under him, and he dropped to the ground without a sound. I rushed to the car,   55  open the door and looked inside. There was no girl there. Suddenly from the back of the car came a voice.

“You have been listening to a radio play, Murder in Hollywood, with Mae Garbo and Clark Taylor. The news will follow immediately . ”