2013年北京外语口语考试：英语口试样题（3）
A Brave Mother
Liza, a middle-aged woman, went to prepare lunch, leaving Barney, her 3-year-old-son, playing by himself in the backyard.
All of a sudden, a sharp cry of Barney cam e into the mother’s ears, and Liza rushed into the backyard and found a big snake entwining the little child with its body and trying to swallow the boy. Liza was terrified and quite angry. She made up her mind to save her son from the snake’s mouth.
It was mother’s love that mad e Liza forget what she faced. She t ook up an old hatch et from the ground a nd struck the snake with all her strength.
One two w ith the hatchet, Liza hit the snake again and again, but she felt as if she was striking a mass of solid rubber. The little boy’s voice and breath were getting weaker and weaker. Liza’s heart was broken and she got nearly mad.
Suddenly Liza put aside the hatchet and threw herself to the snake, opened her mouth and bit into the
