1、摘要写作参考答案（Key to Summary writing） Lesson 1 The writer went to the theatre last week.He didt enjoy the play.A young man and a young woman were sitting behind him.They were talking loudly.The writer couldnt hear the actors.He turned round.He said he couldnt hear a word.The young man said,This is a priv
2、ate conversation!.(53 words)Lesson 2 The writer always gets up late on Sundays.He got up late last Sunday.His aunt telephoned then.She had just arrived by train.She was coming to see him.He said,I am still having breakfast.His aunt was surprised.It was one oclock.(45 words)Lesson 3 Postcards always
3、spoil the writers holidays.He spent his holiday in Italy last summer.He tought about postcards every day.He didnt send any cards to his friends.He bought thirty-seven cards on the last day.He staied at home all day.He didnt write any cards.(47 words)Lesson 4 The writer has just received a letter fro
4、m his brother,Tim.Tim is an engineer.He has been in Australia for six months.He has already visited many places.He is in Alice Springs now.Tim has never been abroad before.He is enjoying his trip very much.(48 words)Lesson 5 Mr.Scott has opened his second garage in Pinhurst.His first garage is in Si
5、lbury.Silbure is five miles away from Pinhurst.Mr.Scott cant get a telephone for his new garage.He has just bought twelve pigeons.They carry messages from one garage to the other in three minutes.(48 words)Lesson 6 The writer has just moved to a house in Bridge Street.A beggar knocked at her door ye
6、sterday.He sang songs.The writer gave him a meal and a glass of beer in return for this.The beggars name is Percy Buttons.He calls at every house once a month.(50 words)Lesson 7 Detectives were waiting at the airport all morning.They were expecting a valuable parcel of diamonds from South Africa.Two
7、 men took the parcel of the plane.Two detectives opened it.The parcel was full of stones and sand.(39 words)Lesson 8 Joe Sanders has the best garden in town.He wins The Nicest Garden Competitioneach year.Bill has a fine garden.Joes is better.The writers garden is terrible.He always win a little priz
8、e for the competition.(37 words)Lesson 9 We went to the Town Hall on New Years Eve.There were a lot of people there.The Town Hall clock will strike twelve in twenty minutes.At five to twelve,it stopped.It refused to welcome the New Year.The crowd began to laugh and sing.(46 words)Lesson 10 We own an
9、 old clavichord.It was made in 1681.My grandfather bought the instrument many years ago.A visitor damaged it recently.She tried to play jazz on it.She broke two of the strings.My fathers friend is repairing it now.(45 words)Lesson 11 I was having dinner at a restaurant.I see Tony Steele after a whil
10、e.He always borrows money from his friends.Tony sat at my table.I asked him to lend me twenty pounds.He gave me the money at once.He wanted me to pay for his dinner.(49 words)Lesson 12 Well meet Captain Charles Alison at Portsmouth Harbour eary tomorrow moring.He will be in his small boat,Topsail.He
11、 will leave at eight oclock.Well say goodbye to him.He will take part in an importantrace across the Atlantic.(40 words)Lesson 13 The Greenwood Boys are singers.They will be coming here tomorrow.Most of the young people will be meeting them at the station.They will gave five peiformances.The police
12、will be trying to keep order as usual.(38 words)Lesson 14 The writer gave a lift to a young man in the south of France last year.They greated each other in French.The writer doesnt speak any French.They sat in silence.The young man said,Do you speak English? at the end of the journey.He was English
13、himself.(49 words)Lesson 15 Mr.Harmsworth wanted see me.I felt nervous.I went into his office.He said business was very bad.The firm couldnt pay such large salaries.Twenty people had already left.He didnt ask me to leave.He offered me an extra thousand pounds a year!(47 words)Lesson 16 Traffic polic
14、e usually give you a ticket if you park your car in the wrong place.The writer found a polite note on his car in Sweden.The traffic policeman wanted him to pay attention to their street sighs.Everyone cant fail to obey a request like this.(48 words)Lesson 17 My aunt Jennifer is an actress.She is ove
15、r thirty years old.She often appears on the stage as a young girl.Jennifer will act the part of a girl of seventeen in a new play soon.She never tells anyone how old she really is.(46 words)Lesson 18 The writer had lunch at a village pub.She couldnt find her bag after her meal.She couldnt pay the bi
16、ll.The landlord soon found it for her.His dog had taken it into the garden.(36 words)Lesson 19 The play was going to begin at any moment.I asked for two tickets.There were none left.Susan and I were disappointted.A man hurried to the ticket office just then.He returned two tickets.They were for next
17、 Wednesdays performance.I bought them.(45 words)Lesson 20 Fishing is the writers favourite sport.Some unlucky fisherman catch old boots and rubbish.The writer isnt not so lucky.He never catches anything.He isnt really interested in fishing.He is only interested in sitting in a boat and doing nothing
18、 at all.(44 words)Lesson 21The writer is slowly going mad.He lives near an airport.Passing planes can be heard night and day.Most of his neighbours have left their homes.He has been offered money to leave.He determined to stay here.Everyone says he must be mad.They are probably right.(49 words)Lesso
19、n 22 Jane crossed the Channel last year.She threw a bottle into the sea.It contains a piece of paper with her name and address on it.She received a letter from a girl in Holland ten months later.They write to each other regularly now.They send their letters by post.(50 words)Lesson 23 My sister will
20、 come to England next year.If she comes,she will get a surprise.I have a new house in the country.I have invited my sister to star with me.It is a very modern house.It has get many large rooms and a lovely garden.(48 words)Lesson 24 I had just lost fifty pounds.I felt very upset.I told the manager a
21、bout it.He couldnt do anything.He began complain about this wicked world.A girl came in with the money just then.She had found it outside my room.There is still some honesty in this world.(51 words)Lesson 25 I arrived at a railway station in London and asked a porter the way to my hotel,but he could
22、nt understand me. He understood me at last but I couldnt understand his answer. My teacher never spoke English like that. The porter said I shall learn English soon. Each person speaks a different language in England. They understand each other but I dont understand them.(67 words)Lesson 26 The writ
23、er studies art and paints a lot of pictures. Many people dont really understand modern art. Paintings dont always have a meaning. They are something pretty patterns. Young children not only appreciate modern paintings better than others,but noticed more also. The writers young sister went into his r
24、oom yesterday and examined his new picture. He had hung it upside down and she noticed this immediately.(67 words)Lesson 27 The boys put up their tent in the middle of a flied and cooked over an open fire. They told stories and sang songs after their meal but it began to rain so they crept into thei
25、r tent. The boys woke up in the middle of the night. The tent was full of water so they rushed outside. A stream had formed in the field and flowed right under their tent.(68 words)Lesson 28 Jasper White believes in ancient myths. Car owners always park their cars outside his gate so he has put up N
26、o Parking signs but they havent paid any attention to them. He has put an ugly stone head over the gate. It is Medusas head. He wants her to turn cars and their owners to stone but she hasnt done so yet.(62 words)Lesson 29 Captain Ben Fawcett has bought a small Swiss aeroplane and uses it as a taxi.
27、 It is called a Pilatus Porter . It can not only carry seven passengers, but can land anywhere also. Captain Fawcett has taken passengers to many strange places. He refused to fly a businessman to Rockall. The journey was too dangerous.(56 words)Lesson 30 The writer sat by the river last Sunday. Som
28、e children were playing games nearby. One of the children kicked a ball hard and it went towards a passing boat. The man in the boat neither saw the ball nor heard people shouting. The ball hit the man and the children ran away. However, the man was not angry and he threw the ball back to the bank.
29、(67 words)Lesson 31 Frank Hawkins was telling the writer about his experiences as a young man.Frank used to work in a small shop as a boy.He used to repair bicycles there.He bought his own shop in 1958 and he made spare parts for aeroplanes in his twenties.He employed a lot of people in a few years.
30、His wife came into the room after a while.She wanted him to repair their grandsons bicycle.(68 words)Lesson 32 A detective watched a well-dressed woman in a large store one Monday.She bought a few small articles and she chose an expensive dress.The assistant wrapped it up for her and the woman took
31、it with her.She did not pay for it,so the detective arrested her. The assistant was her daughter. She gave her mother a free dress once a week.(60 words)Lesson 33 The girl set out from the coast one afternoon and was caught in a storm.Her boat struck a rock,so she jumped into the sea.She swam eight
32、miles that night.She reached the shore early next morning.She had seen a light high up on the cilffs and she cllimbed up.She found herself in hospital a day later.(55 words)Lesson 34 Dan Robinson was worried.He had received a letter from the local police.Yesterday he went to the station.He is not wo
33、rried any more.The police have found his bicycle.Dan was not only surprised but amused as well.His bicycle was stolen twenty years ago.He was fifteen then.(44 words)Lesson 35 Roy is finding his new job as a bus driver exciting.He saw two thieves in Catford Street recently.They were running out of a
34、shop and Roy drove his bus straight at them,so they dropped the stolen money and got into a car.Roy drove his bus into the back of their car then and damaged it.Afte this he telephoned the police.Both men were arrested later. (64 words)Lesson 36 Debbie Hart is going to swim across the English Channe
35、l tomorrow.She is eleven and she is a strong swimmer.Debbie has been trained by her father.He will follow her in a small boat.Debbies mother will be waiting on the English coast.She swam the Channel herself when she was a girl.(49 words)Lesson 37 The Olympic Games will be held in our country in four
36、 years time,so the government will be putting up new buildings just outside the capital.Kurt Gunter has designed the buildings and workers will have completed the new stadium by the end of next year.The Games will be held in this country for the first time and we are looking forward to them. (62 wor
37、ds)Lesson 38 The writers friend,Harrison,had spent many years in the Mediterranean,but he wanted to retire in England so he bought a house in the country.The summer that year was very bad and he complained about the weather.In the end Harrison not only sold the house but also left the country.(48 wo
38、rds)Lesson 39 Dr.Millington refused to tell his patient,Mr.John Gilbert,whether his operation had been successful.The next day the patient telephoned Dr.Millington and inquired about a certain patient,Mr.John Gilbert.The doctor answered a number of questions about the patient and then asked whether
39、the caller was a relative.The caller then told him who he was.(50 words)Lesson 40 The writer sat beside Mrs. Rumbold at the dinner party.He tried to make comversation, but she was busy eating.He talked about the new play at The Globe and about the holidays.She answered his questions briefly.Then he
40、asked her if she was enjoying her dinner and she answered that if he have eaten morn and talked less, they would both have a good dinner.(63 words)Lesson 41 The wirters wife was trying on a hat and he didnt like it. He sat down and waited for her.Then they began arguing again.He had bought a terribl
41、e tie the day before but his wife didnt like it. He said,A man can never have too many ties. His wife used exactly the same argument and she bought the hat. It looked like a lighthouse.(67 words)Lesson 42 We watched a snake charmer in a square in Old Delhi. He had a long pipe and two large baskets.
42、He played a tune and the snake in one of the baskets rose to follow the movements of the pipe. Then the snake charmer played modern tunes but the snake continued to dance slowly. It didnt know the difference between Indian music and jazz.(64 words)Lesson 43 In 1929,the American explorer ,R.E.Byrd be
43、came the first man to fly over the South Pole. He took a lot of photographs during the flight but then ran into difficulties. His plane couldnt get over the mountains so he orded his men to throw out two heavy food sacks. The plane then flew over the mountains and continued without further trouble.(
44、63 words)Lesson 44 Two men tried to steal Mrs.Sterlings handbag. She was having a picnic at the time. They took the bag after a struggle and ran through the trees. She ran after them and caught up with them. The men had sat down and were going through the contents of the bag. Mrs.Sterling ran straig
45、ht at them so they dropped the bag and ran away.(66 words)Lesson 45 The local buther,Sam Benton,was taking his savings to the post office but he lost his wallet. Sam not only received half his money three months later,but received a note as well.The note said:A thief,yes,but only 50 per cent a thief
46、!The thief included a note every time he sent Sam more money. The last note said: I am 100 per cent honest now!(68 words)Lesson 46 The plane from London arrived at Sydney airport and workers unloaded a number of wooden boxes. They contained clothing. One of the boxes was extremely heavy so a worker
47、opened it. He found a man on top of a pile of woolen goods. The man was arrested. He had travelled in the box from London. He had to pay 3,500 pounds. An ordinary tickets costs 2,000 pounds.(65 words)Lesson 47 Mr. Ian Thompson bought a public house recently but it is haunted,so he is going to sale i
48、t. There was a strange noise in the bar one night and the room was in disorder next morning. Mr. Thompson found five empty whisky bottles. He doesnt believe that some villagers broke into the bar and had a drink. Anybody in the village doesnt want to the pub.(68 words)Lesson 48 The dentist in the st
49、ory had pulled out one of the writers teeth and had told him to rest for a while. He asked several questions but the writer couldnt answer them. His mouth was full of cotton wool. He suddenly discovered something wrong but he couldnt say anything. The dentist eventually removed the cotton wool from his mouth and the writer told him he had pulled out the wrong tooth.(72 words)Lesson 49 A young man in Teheran bought a real bed for the first time in his life.He slept on the roof of his house because the weat
