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About a hundred people lived in a very small mountain village. It was very from the other villages and towns. They had few and none of them left the village. Of course there was neither electricity(电) nor gas(煤气) there.
Once a writer the village. The backwardness(落后) of the village surprised him. He decided about it to the world. So he took the oldest villager to London. The old man told all about his home and village to the people. Several months he returned. All the villagers went to see him and asked him how he had enjoyed in the city.
“Everything is in London,” the old man said, “I've to many good places and eaten all kinds of nice food and other things. But the trouble was I could not at night. ”
“What happened to you?” his wife asked.
“Thewas on in my bedroom all the time.”
“Why not blow it out, then?”
“I tried, but it was inside a little glass bottle.”
