tailieunhanh - Talk about a narrow escape

Tham khảo tài liệu 'talk about a narrow escape', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Talk about a narrow escape Whenever my mind travels over the past events in my life one incident stands out prominently to remind me of the narrow escape I once had from almost certain death. In the rubber estates of West Malaysia there are hundreds of snakes of which the cobra is the most dangerous and venomous. This snake has a preference for cool places along the numerous streams found in the estates where it relaxes especially in the afternoons. Those who catch fish from these streams have therefore to be on the look-out for cobras. All this I did not know until I came face to face with a cobra one day while fishing with my brother. My brother and I were then spending our holidays in an estate where our father was employed. In the afternoons my brother who loves fishing and I would go out to catch fish from the streams not very far from our father s house. Wherever the water was shallow we got down into the streams and searched for holes where fish usually like to shelter. When we found one we put our hands in and often caught some fish. Fishing in this way had its moments of excitement for at times we also caught some water-snakes which we found to be harmless. Then one day I came so close to death that I made up my mind never to catch fish again in that way. A cobra about six feet long was lying along the water s edge of one side of the stream in which we were fishing. Its tail was in the water but it was concealed by the reeds and grasses along that stream. As I put my hand into .