刘圈基善良

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.”

遇蛇奇记

上个周末，我表妹琳琳来到我家。她说：“我们去放风筝吧。”我很开心。这是我第一次放风筝。

琳琳很聪明，她自己亲手做的风筝。她在风筝上画了画，看起来很漂亮。

“你打算去哪儿放风筝呢？”我问琳琳。

“我们去你家的后山上放。”她笑着说。

后山并不高。山上有树有花。琳琳牵着风筝跑，我在后面追着她跑。风筝在空中飞得很高。我们玩得很开心！

突然，我们停住脚步。在我们面前有一条蛇。我们大为震惊，太可怕啦！

“别害怕，别乱动。”我对琳琳说。我们一直都不出声。我不说话只是跺了跺脚。蛇很快跑开了。

“你为什么跺脚？”琳琳诧异地问我。

“蛇视力不好，但是听力很好。”我说，“小时候，爸爸对我说过的。当你遇见蛇的时候，你应该保持安静。蛇是不会攻击你，除非你老是乱动。”

我们听见爸爸在喊我们回去吃晚饭，于是转身下山回家。我一回到家就把偶遇蛇的事情告诉爸爸。爸爸说：“蛇和人类也是朋友。我们不攻击它们，它们也不会攻击我们。”

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.”