湖北省沙市中学2017-2018学年高二上学期第二次双周考英语试题（PDF版，无答案）

Shortly after the war, my brother and I were invited to spend a few days with an uncle who had just returned from abroad. He had rented a cottage in the country, although he rarely spent much time there. We understood the reason for this after our arrival: the cottage had no comfortable furniture in it, many of the windows were broken and the roof leaked, making the whole house damp On our first evening, we sat around the fire after supper listening to the stories which our uncle had to tell of his many adventures in distant countries. I was so tired after the long train journey that I would have preferred to go to bed; but I could not bear to miss any of my uncle's exciting tales He was just in the middle of describing a rather terrifying experience he had once had when there was a loud crash from the bedroom above the one where my brother and i were going to sleep It sounds as if the roof has fallen in! "cried out my uncle, with a loud laugh When we got to the top of the stairs an