They’re tough breeds and they have complicated names to match. But free-spirited Aussie dogs Tank the Rottweiler-cross and Muck the Staffie-cross instinctively (本能地) knew when a small child was in danger, and their protective
One December afternoon, Georgie Hillier thought her two-year-old son Max was playing in the back garden of their home. But when she went to check, there was no
Then she found Tank with the neighbor’s dog Muck. They were both running around the dams, barking furiously and
“I just panicked. I was running around, checking the sides of the dams,“ Georgie told Sara Hicks.
There was no one there to
For saving the toddler’s life, the daring two dogs received the RSPCA’s Purple Cross award for bravery- plus two very large bones.
1.A.measures | B.natures | C.skills | D.effects |
A.response | B.exhibition | C.shadow | D.sign |
A.approach | B.search | C.guard | D.discover |
A.stuck | B.covered | C.hidden | D.trapped |
A.After | B.Though | C.Unless | D.While |
A.untouched | B.unwrapped | C.unknown | D.unharmed |
A.prove | B.witness | C.indicate | D.explain |
A.edge | B.island | C.scene | D.beach |
A.apparent | B.essential | C.pleasant | D.pitiful |
A.separated | B.discouraged | C.freed | D.rescued |
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A.working | B.playing | C.studying | D.watching |
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A.passed | B.broken | C.opened | D.locked |
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A.cook | B.reward | C.load | D.connect |
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A.just | B.still | C.ever | D.never |
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A.here and there | B.left and right | C.up and down | D.in and out |
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