奇速英语

Last summer, my brother, Juan, and I were staying at our grandfather’s house in Mexico. When he was young, our grandfather was an explorer.

One day, we were looking at his books and we found an old map hidden between the pages of a book called Animals of Mexico. On the map there were directions to a secret place, deep in the forest.

Juan wanted to follow the map. “Perhaps we’ll find some treasure!” he said excitedly.

We set off early the next morning. The marks on the map took us deeper and deeper into the forest. The tall trees blocked the sunlight, so it was very dark. Suddenly, we heard a deep loud noise. From the dark corner came out a huge, wild, spotted cat.

“It’s a jaguar (美洲豹),” I breathed as quietly as I could.

Juan froze with fear. My heart was beating really fast, but I calmly looked the jaguar straight in the eyes and tried not to show how scared I was.

“Back away, slowly,” I said to Juan in a low voice.

We walked backwards very, very slowly. The jaguar took one last look at us, then turned and disappeared back into the darkness.

Juan’s hands were shaking as he looked again at the map.

“We’re here!” he said. “This is Grandpa’s secret place.”

As we turned around we saw a small, wooden cabin (木屋).

We nervously opened the door and went inside. On the walls, there were photos of beautiful jaguars, like the one we had seen.

Still shaking like a leaf after our adventure, we began to realize that we had, in fact, found a treasure—a place where jaguars live in the wild.