胡敏读故事背单词 GRE

The road to Royston Valley

You

will

never

find

the

village

of

Royston

V

alley

on

maps. Traditionally, locals do not abbreviate it to “R.V

.”

or abridge it to “Royston”. This would be to abandon a

tradition.

Royston

Valley

is

an

aberration

and

its

inhabitants,

who

consider

themselves

aboriginals,

are

aberrant.

Stranger

s

arriving

in

Royston

Valley

cannot

abscond. Locals abominate them, their situation is abject

and

they

are

at

the

mercy

of

the

local

people,

who

are

aboveboard

with

each

other,

but

hold

rules

in

abeyance

with

regard

to

strangers.

Rumors

abound

that

hikers

in

the nearby i

n the nearby hills have been abducted and …

well, who knows.

The villagers live in almost absolute isolation and do not

want

the

outside

world

to

absorb

them.

They

are

abstemious and abstain from most of the modern things

that other English people, who are now rarely abstentious,

enjoy. Their abstention would be famous if anyone knew

of it. A few people keep abreast of events in the outside

world,

in

case

anything

that

could

affect

the

village

happens.

One

of

these

people

discovered

that

a

road

to

Royston

Valley was

being

built.

The

locals

thought this