(2020·洛阳高三第二次统考)On a December morning in 1951，Malone left his home in downtown St.John's in Newfoundland，to buy some butter for his mother.When he__1__the corner onto Central Street，he saw__2__coming from one of its threestorey houses.A woman at its window__3__，“Save the children！Save the children！” Malone__4__toward the burning house，through the front door and up a flight of__5__，where he found a fiveyearold girl.“I grabbed(抓住)the child，” he said，“but she__6__‘No，no，my sister！You've got to get my sister！’” Malone__7__felt compelled(必须)to cross the hall and check the other bedroom.He reached under the bed and found the girl's__8__，silent threeyearold__9__．As the__10__intensified(增强)，Malone carried the children safely out to the street and the waiting people.Then he__11__left—he was late for__12__the butter for his mom!
Over the years，Malone thought about the fire and the children he had__13__and wondered what had happened to the girls.
Malone and his wife，Liz，spent four__14__in Ontario until last October，when they__15__to Newfoundland.The couple settled in Conception Bay South，30 kilometres from St.John's，in a house__16__the sea.
Shortly after they moved in，two of their new neighbors__17__with a housewarming__18__—frozen cod and salt fish.Malone and Liz invited Fowler and her husband in for a__19__，through which Malone and Fowler，who are both in their seventies，__20__a connection.
