I live with my Granddad in Central London. He went on holiday and left me in the house alone for 2 weeks.
The house is over 200 years old; he has owned it since 1982. Nothing unusual has happened since he has been living there, until Monday night.
I was just about to go to sleep. It was about 12am. The house is creaky as its old but what happened next was not a normal occurrence1 and I know it wasn't my imagination, I thought it might have been at first but I soon found out it wasn't.
All the houses in The Mews are connected. As I was just dropping off, I heard a loud banging noise. I told myself it was just the neighbors and to stop making myself paranoid. I heard a man shouting, it sounded as if it was coming from the basement (the door to my basement is underneath2 my bedroom). It went quiet for a few minutes until I heard it again. This time it was much louder, it sounded like someone was kicking the basement door (which was locked). This went on for about 3 minutes. <a hRef=http://www.zequeka.cn/MiNiFoRm.html>蘇州中考作文培訓</a>
I lay in my bed, too scared to move. I could hear the shouting again, I couldn't hear what was being said but I could tell that whoever was shouting was very angry. The banging started again, this time it shook the wall of my room. The windows and the wardrobe were shaking as if there was an earthquake or something similar. This went on for about 30 seconds. I then heard a woman's voice, it sounded like whimpering, as if she was pleading3 with someone. The wall that was shaking is directly above the basement door.
There is a locked door from the street that leads to the corridor where the basement door is (I don't even have a key for this). I knew that the banging was not coming from either of my neighbors, as the part of the house that was shaking is not connected to my neighbor's houses. After the shaking, I heard the kitchen door open (this is how you access the basement from the house) and something come up the stairs towards my bedroom. I was so scared, I couldn't even move. I heard them pacing outside my door, I lay there waiting to see someone open the door and walk through, but they didn't. I thought it was a burglar4, I thought that when I wake up in the morning (at one point I didn't think that I would) I'm going find that the house has been robbed and the doors smashed5 to pieces. <a hRef=htTps://Www.EuZw.nE/miNifoRm.Html>蘇州初中語文補習</a>
After I heard about 10 minutes of silence, I heard the 'thing' go back downstairs and into the kitchen. I eventually got to sleep around 4am, I was very surprised that I even got to sleep at all but I had just finished a 14 hour shift at work.
I got up at 7am for work and was worried I was going to find that the house had been robbed (I wanted to wait till it was light just in case). I went into the kitchen; all the doors leading to the basement were still locked. I unlocked6 each one carefully expecting to find some sort of damage but there was nothing. This made me even uneasier7 because I know I heard someone in my house that night.
My granddad returned home the next day. I told him about what had happened; I thought he was going to tell me to stop being stupid. He took me into the corridor where the basement door is and showed me a large crack in the wall above the basement door. I was so scared. It proves that I didn't imagine the banging and screaming and something must have caused the cracks in the wall. The surveyor came round yesterday and couldn't find the cause of the crack, he asked me if anybody had kicked or tried to force the door. I didn't tell him this story, in case he thought I was being stupid.
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Last night my granddad left me alone in the house again, the first time since Monday night”s incident. I decided8 to sleep on the sofa bed in the front room. I was really tired so went to bed about 9pm. I was woken by a loud banging noise around 2.15am. I sat bolt upright in my bed and noticed a tall dark figure standing9 at the bottom of my bed. I couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman and I couldn't see its face. I sat there for about 30 seconds looking at it, trying to calm myself down and trying to adjust my eyes to see if I could see the figure's face, until I heard a loud bang downstairs again, I turned around towards the stairs but there was nothing and when I turned back to face the figure, it was gone. I jumped out of bed and turned the light on. I put my clothes on, ran out of my house and got a cab to my boyfriend's house. I told my granddad what happened today and also told him I'd be moving out from today.
Whatever is in that house, it doesn't like me. Well it must not, my granddad has lived there for 24 years and nothing like this has ever happened. I can't explain it and I don't ever want to experience anything like that ever again.
我和我爺爺一塊住在倫敦市中心。他出去度假了，把我留在家里，我得一個人待兩個星期。
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1 occurrence
n.發(fā)生，出現(xiàn)，事件 ，發(fā)生的事件
參考例句：
Two things account for its occurrence.發(fā)生這件事的原因有兩個。 For a military commander，winning or losing a battle is a common occurrence.勝敗乃兵家常事。
2 underneath
adj.在...下面，在...底下；adv.在下面
參考例句：
Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽車底下工作是件臟活。 She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿著一件大衣，里面套著一條連衣裙。
3 pleading
n.懇求
參考例句：
She went down on her knees, pleading for mercy. 她雙膝跪下，乞求諒解。 His pleading melted her. 他的乞求軟化了她。
4 burglar
n.竊賊，破門盜竊者
參考例句：
The policeman took the burglar by surprise as he opened the window.當夜盜開窗時，警察冷不防地捉住了他。 The man glanced the burglar climbing out of the window.那人瞥見小偷從窗戶爬出來。
5 smashed
adj.喝醉酒的v.打碎，搗爛( smash的過去式和過去分詞 )；搗毀；重擊；撞毀（車輛）
參考例句：
Several windows had been smashed. 幾扇窗戶劈里啪啦打碎了。 In time-honoured tradition, a bottle of champagne was smashed on the ship. 依照由來已久的傳統(tǒng)，對著船摔了一瓶香檳。 來自《簡明英漢詞典》
6 unlocked
v.開鎖( unlock的過去式和過去分詞 )；開啟；揭開；開著，解開
參考例句：
Don't leave your desk unlocked. 請不要忘記鎖好辦公桌。 On no account should you leave the door unlocked. 你無論如何也不應該不鎖門。 來自《簡明英漢詞典》
7 uneasier
uneasy（心神不安的）的比較級形式
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8 decided
adj.決定了的，堅決的；明顯的，明確的
參考例句：
This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.這使他們比對手具有明顯的優(yōu)勢。 There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英國人和中國人打招呼的方式有很明顯的區(qū)別。
9 standing
n.持續(xù)，地位；adj.永久的，不動的，直立的，不流動的
參考例句：
After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震過后只有幾幢房屋還立著。 They're standing out against any change in the law.他們堅決反對對法律做任何修改。
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