Have you ever been near an animal you were afraid of？How close have you been to a 1 snake？Well, Tony Kepler raises killer snakes for a living and he loves his 2 . He has been working with them 3 he was a little boy. Tony's father has been a snake handler（驯蛇师）for twenty years and he has taught his son a lot about them. Now Tony is 4 to make money from snakes. In order to5 the venom（毒液）, he has to find rattlesnakes（响尾蛇）in the western part of the United States. People use the venom to make into something called "antivenin"（抗毒素）。This antivenin is really helpful in6 the person who has been bitten.
Many people heard 7 stories about snakes when they were children and have been afraid of them. Tony has been trying to8 people about the positive things snakes do. Snakes are also very clean and they 9 trouble humans. Tony's job is very different from any other job I've heard of, but it is a really important one.10 venom collectors, many people would be in real danger and some would die.
