劉圈基善良

Met a Snake by Accident

Last weekend， my cousin Linlin came to my house. She said， “Let’s fly a kite.” I was very happy. This was the first time for me to fly a kite.

Linlin was so clever that she made a kite by herself. She drew a picture on the kite. It looked very beautiful.

“Where are you going to fly？” I asked Linlin.

“We will fly on the hill behind your house，” she said with a smile.

The hill was not high. There were trees and flowers on the hill. Linlin was running with the kite and I was running after her. The kite was flying high in sky. How happy we were！

Suddenly， we stopped. There was a snake in front of us. It made us shocked. How terrible it was！

“Don’t fear. Keep still，” I said to Linlin. We kept silent. I stamped1 my feet without saying any words. The snake was running away soon.

“Why did you stamp your feet？” Linlin asked me in a surprise.

“Snake is not good at seeing things， but it is good at listening to sounds，” I said to her， “When I was a child， my father told me when you meet a snake， you should keep quiet. It will not attack2 you until you are moving all the time.”

遇蛇奇記

上個周末，我表妹琳琳來到我家。她說：“我們去放風箏吧。”我很開心。這是我第一次放風箏。

琳琳很聰明，她自己親手做的風箏。她在風箏上畫了畫，看起來很漂亮。

“你打算去哪兒放風箏呢？”我問琳琳。

“我們去你家的后山上放。”她笑著說。

后山并不高。山上有樹有花。琳琳牽著風箏跑，我在后面追著她跑。風箏在空中飛得很高。我們玩得很開心！

突然，我們停住腳步。在我們面前有一條蛇。我們大為震驚，太可怕啦！

“別害怕，別亂動。”我對琳琳說。我們一直都不出聲。我不說話只是跺了跺腳。蛇很快跑開了。

“你為什么跺腳？”琳琳詫異地問我。

“蛇視力不好，但是聽力很好。”我說，“小時候，爸爸對我說過的。當你遇見蛇的時候，你應該保持安靜。蛇是不會攻擊你，除非你老是亂動。”

我們聽見爸爸在喊我們回去吃晚飯，于是轉身下山回家。我一回到家就把偶遇蛇的事情告訴爸爸。爸爸說：“蛇和人類也是朋友。我們不攻擊它們，它們也不會攻擊我們。”

We heard that my parents calling us to have dinner so we returned down the hill to back home. I told the accident to my father as soon as I got home. My father said， “Snakes and people are also friends. We don’t attack them， and they won’t attack us.”