A.warn
B.away
C.out
A. men and animals might soon die【T7】______
B. their hands were burnt 【T8】______
C. fear would not【T9】______ it to keep away from the fire
Fear and its companion pain are two of the most useful things that men and animals possess, if they are properly used. If fire did not hurt when it burnt, children would play it until【T10】______ . Similarly, if pain existed but fear did not, a child would burn itself again and again, because【T11】______ that had burnt it before. A really fearless soldier—and some do exist—is not a good soldier because he is soon killed; and a dead soldier is of no use to his army. Fear and pain are therefore two guards without which【T12】______.