宁静的小屋
【内容提示】
如果你是农村学生，你就会知道农村生活的宁静闲适；如果你是城市的学生，也许你去过偏僻农村的亲戚家逗留过，或者去自然保护区，森林公园等地旅游过。与城市生活相比，农村生活要恬静得多，悠闲得多。请你写一篇短文抒发一下你对农村或偏僻地区生活的恬适之情。
【作文示范】
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.
（选自《英语画刊》高中版1997年第7期）
【词语解释】
①cabin [＇k$bin] n. 小屋
②acre [＇eik+] n．英亩
③upstream [＇)p＇stri:m] ad．在上游
④glow [gl+u] n．光辉；白热光
⑤snow flake [fleik] 雪花
【写法指要】
作者通过对一间小屋及其在小屋小住几日的描写抒发了自己对乡间生活的恬适感情。第一段是引言，说明作者及其姊妹在小屋过圣诞节。第二段说小屋所在地像一个世外桃园，非常美。第三段写小屋晚上的情景以及下雪时的情况。这里虽然没有电，但它的夜晚却非常幽静、舒适、令人神往。