大学英语快速阅读College English.1附习题10The Danger of Green Grass Snakes.docx

The Danger of Green Grass SnakesA couple in Sweetwater, Texas had a lot of potted plants, and in winter the wife brought a lot of them indoors to protect them from a possible freeze. It turned out that a little green grass snake was hidden in one of the plants and when it had warmed up, it slithered [ ( 蛇) 游动] out and the wife saw it go under the sofa. She let out a very loud scream. The husband ran out into the living room to see what the problem was. She told him there was a snake under the sofa. He got down on the floor on his hands and knees to look for it.About that time the family dog came and touched him on the leg with its cold nose. He thought the snake had bitten him and he fainted. His wife thought he had a heart attack, so she called an ambulance. The attendants rushed in and loaded him on the stretcher and started carrying him out.About that time the snake came out from under the sofa and the Emergency Medical Technician saw it and dropped his end of the stretcher. The husband had his leg broken and was sent to the hospital.The wife still had the problem of the snake in the house, so she called on a neighbor. He volunteered to capture the snake. He armed himself with a rolled-up newspaper and began poking under the couch. Soon he decided it was gone and told the woman, who sat down on the sofa in relief. But in relaxing, her hand dangled (摆动) in between the cushions, where she felt the snake wriggling (蠕动 around. She screamed and fainted, the snake rushed back under the sofa, and the neighbor tried to use CPR( 人工呼吸法 ) to revive her. The neighbors wife, who had just returned from shopping, saw her husbands mouth on the womans mouth and slammed her husband in the back of the head with a bag of canned goods, knocking him out and cutting his head to a point where it needed stitches.By now the police had arrived. They called an ambulance, which took away the woman and the neighbor. Just then the little snake crawled out from under the couch. One of the polic