【內容提示】
你的家鄉在某條河流的附近。它澆灌着河域的良田，養育着沿河的兒女，人們稱它爲母親河。它或者流水潺潺，或者洶涌澎湃；沿岸景色萬千，甚是美麗。你早有遊覽該河、一覽美景的'願望，但一直未能成行。恰好，某個星期天你們班要組織遊覽，這使你非常高興。請你把遊覽的情況和你的心情寫一篇文章。
【作文示範】
i love you——the yellow river
it＇s well known that the yellow river is the second longest river in china. though my hometown is close to her, yet i had no chance to enjoy myself at her beautiful scenery. what a pity！to my great joy we were told that we would go there and have a good look at the lovely river on sunday.
it took us quite a few hours＇ ride to reach the bank of the river,where we saw the chunü spring①. it is one of the most famous hot springs there . the water of the spring is so clear that we couldn＇t help diving into it. our head teacher, together with us, swam happily. floating on the water, i looked around . we were surrounded by the great mountains.
then we got on some small boats. we had been longing to float on the mother river. seeing her powerful current and attractive beauty, i felt proud of being one of her sons.
it was noon before we knew it. we went ashore② and then danced and sang happily on the grassland. we helped ourselves to the tasty③ fish, crabs④ and other food, which we cooked ourselves.
it was time for us to go home. we had to say good-bye to the mother river. we all felt reluctant⑤ when we left her.
（選自《英語畫刊》高中版1997年第1期）
【詞語解釋】
①chunü spring處女泉
②go ashore [+＇m&:]上岸
③tasty [＇teisti] a．美味的；可口的
④crab [kr$b] n．蟹；蟹肉
⑤reluctant [ri＇l)kt+nt] a．不願意的；留戀的
【寫法指要】
本文作者把自己對黃河的一片愛心和感情融於對黃河美景的描寫之中。第一段寫自己急於遊黃河的心情；第二段寫黃河的景點之一“處女泉”及在其中暢遊時的快活心情；第三段寫乘船漂游時被美景吸引住的自豪感；第四段寫上岸後吃美味時的高興勁；最後一段寫留連忘返的心情。
