寧靜的小屋
【內容提示】
如果你是農村學生，你就會知道農村生活的寧靜閒適；如果你是城市的學生，也許你去過偏僻農村的親戚家逗留過，或者去自然保護區，森林公園等地旅遊過。與城市生活相比，農村生活要恬靜得多，悠閒得多。請你寫一篇短文抒發一下你對農村或偏僻地區生活的恬適之情。
【作文示範】
A Peaceful Cabin
My sister and I spent last Christmas Day at our aunt＇s cabin①.
Although it takes only half an hour to drive there from our home. we don＇t go there very often. To me the place is like another world. It is very peaceful. My aunt owns 20 acres② of woods with a little stream running through it. The cabin is surrounded by hills and the stream flows before it. The cabin is very small, maybe only half the size of a classroom, just big enough for a couple to live in. Water from the stream can be used for washing only, because the people living upstream ③ often made the water too dirty to drink. Drinking water has to be brought in from another place.
There is no electricity there, and therefore oil lamps are used in the evenings. There is a small wood-burning stove that looks like a fireplace. We are very comfortable in the evenings with the glow④ of the fire and the light of the oil lamps. There is no telephone or television set. No one bothers us, so we can enjoy a very quiet life. I think it is very romantic. I especially like to go there in winter. When big snow flakes ⑤ are falling outside, we are warm inside the cabin. Now it＇s only a good memory for me, as my aunt left there a few months ago.
（選自《英語畫刊》高中版1997年第7期）
【詞語解釋】
①cabin [＇k$bin] n. 小屋
②acre [＇eik+] n．英畝
③upstream [＇)p＇stri:m] ad．在上游
④glow [gl+u] n．光輝；白熱光
⑤snow flake [fleik] 雪花
【寫法指要】
作者通過對一間小屋及其在小屋小住幾日的描寫抒發了自己對鄉間生活的恬適感情。第一段是引言，說明作者及其姊妹在小屋過聖誕節。第二段說小屋所在地像一個世外桃園，非常美。第三段寫小屋晚上的情景以及下雪時的情況。這裡雖然沒有電，但它的夜晚卻非常幽靜、舒適、令人神往。