练习材料：[Day2773 2022-04-29]

L48-2:The silent village

Taking apath which led out of the town, we crossed a few fields until we came to a dense wood. We expected the path to end abruptly, but we found that it tracedits way through the trees. We tramped through the wood for over two hours untilwe arrived at a deep stream.We could see that the path continuedon the other side, but wehad no idea how we could get across the stream. Suddenly my wife spotted a boatmoored to the bank. In it there was a boatman fast asleep. We gently woke himup and asked him to ferry us to the other side. Though he was reluctant to doso at first, we eventually persuaded him to take us.The path led to a tinyvillage perched on the steep sides of a mountain. The place consisted of astraggling unmade road which was lined on either side by small houses. Evenunder a clear blue sky, the village looked forbidding, as all the houses were built of grey mud bricks. The village seemeddeserted, the only sign of life being an ugly-looking black goat on a short length of rope tied to a tree in a field nearby.

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