1、摘要写作参考答案（Key to Summary writing） Unit 1Lesson 1 A Private Conversation 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
2、young man said,This is a private conversation!.(53 words)Lesson 2 Breakfast or LunchThe 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
3、one oclock.(45 words)Lesson 3 Please Send Me a Card Postcards always 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 a
4、ny cards.(47 words)Lesson 4 An Exciting TripThe writer has just received a letter from 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
5、)Lesson 5 No Wrong NumbersMr.Scott has opened his second garage in Pinhurst.His first garage is in Silbury.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
6、 words)Lesson 6 Percy Buttons The writer has just moved to a house in Bridge Street.A beggar knocked at her door yesterday.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 Too Lat
7、e Detectives were waiting at the airport all morning.They were expecting a valuable parcel of diamonds from South Africa.Two men took the parcel of the plane.Two detectives opened it.The parcel was full of stones and sand.(39 words)Lesson 8 The Best and WorstJoe Sanders has the best garden in town.H
8、e wins The Nicest Garden Competitioneach year.Bill has a fine garden.Joes is better.The writers garden is terrible.He always win a little prize for the competition.(37 words)Lesson 9 A Cold WelcomeWe went to the Town Hall on New Years Eve.There were a lot of people there.The Town Hall clock will str
9、ike 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 Not for Jazz We own an old clavichord.It was made in 1681.My grandfather bought the instrument many years ago.A visitor damaged it recently.She tried to
10、play jazz on it.She broke two of the strings.My fathers friend is repairing it now.(45 words)Lesson 11 One Return Deserves Another I was having dinner at a restaurant.I see Tony Steele after a while.He always borrows money from his friends.Tony sat at my table.I asked him to lend me twenty pounds.He
11、 gave me the money at once.He wanted me to pay for his dinner.(49 words)Lesson 12 Goodbye and Good LuckWell meet Captain Charles Alison at Portsmouth Harbour eary tomorrow moring.He will be in his small boat,Topsail.He will leave at eight oclock.Well say goodbye to him.He will take part in an import
12、antrace across the Atlantic.(40 words)Lesson 13 The Greenwood Boys 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 will be trying to keep order as usual.(38 words)Lesson 14 Do Yo
13、u Speak EnglishThe 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 himself.(49 words)Lesson 15 Good News Mr.Ha
14、rmsworth 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 A Polite RequestTraffic police usually give yo
15、u 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 Always Young My aunt Jennifer is an actress.She is over th
16、irty 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 It Often Does This The writer had lunch at a village pub.She couldnt find her bag after her meal.She cou
17、ldnt pay the bill.The landlord soon found it for her.His dog had taken it into the garden.(36 words)Lesson 19 Sold Out 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 ti
18、ckets.They were for next Wednesdays performance.I bought them.(45 words)Lesson 20 One Man in a Boat 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 interes
19、ted in sitting in a boat and doing nothing at all.(44 words)Lesson 21 Mad or NotThe 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 h
20、e must be mad.They are probably right.(49 words)Lesson 22 A Glass Envelop 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 n
21、ow.They send their letters by post.(50 words)Lesson 23 A New House My sister will 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 wo
22、rds)Lesson 24 It Could Be Worse I had just lost fifty pounds.I felt very upset.I told the manager about 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)Uni
23、t 2Lesson 25 Do the English Speak English I arrived at a railway station in London and asked a porter the way to my hotel,but he couldnt 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.
24、Each person speaks a different language in England. They understand each other but I dont understand them.(67 words)Lesson 26 The Best Art Critist The writer studies art and paints a lot of pictures. Many people dont really understand modern art. Paintings dont always have a meaning. They are someth
25、ing pretty patterns. Young children not only appreciate modern paintings better than others,but noticed more also. The writers young sister went into his room yesterday and examined his new picture. He had hung it upside down and she noticed this immediately.(67 words)Lesson 27 A Wet Night The boys
26、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 their 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 fi
27、eld and flowed right under their tent.(68 words)Lesson 28 No Parking Jasper White believes in ancient myths. Car owners always park their cars outside his gate so he has put up No Parking signs but they havent paid any attention to them. He has put an ugly stone head over the gate. It is Medusas hea
28、d. He wants her to turn cars and their owners to stone but she hasnt done so yet.(62 words)Lesson 29 Taxi Captain Ben Fawcett has bought a small Swiss aeroplane and uses it as a taxi. It is called a Pilatus Porter . It can not only carry seven passengers, but can land anywhere also. Captain Fawcett
29、has taken passengers to many strange places. He refused to fly a businessman to Rockall. The journey was too dangerous.(56 words)Lesson 30 Football or poloThe writer sat by the river last Sunday. Some children were playing games nearby. One of the children kicked a ball hard and it went towards a pa
30、ssing 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. (67 words)Lesson 31 Success story？Frank Hawkins was telling the writer about his experiences as a you
31、ng 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.His wife came into the room after a while.She wanted him to repair their grandsons bicy
32、cle.(68 words)Lesson 32 Shopping made easyA 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 it with her.She did not pay for it,so the detective arrested her. The
33、 assistant was her daughter. She gave her mother a free dress once a week.(60 words)Lesson 33 Out of the darknessThe 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 miles that night.She reached the shore early next
34、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 Quick workDan Robinson was worried.He had received a letter from the local police.Yesterday he went to the station.He is not worried any more.The police have found his
35、 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 Stop thief!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 shop and Roy drove his bus st
36、raight 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 Across the ChannelDebbie Hart is going to swim across the English Channel tomorrow.
37、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 GamesThe Olympic Games will be held in our country i
38、n four 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. (
39、62 words)Lesson 38 Everything except the weatherThe 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 hou
40、se but also left the country.(48 words)Lesson 39 Am I all right?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 q
41、uestions about the patient and then asked whether the caller was a relative.The caller then told him who he was.(50 words)Lesson 40 Food and talk 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 an
42、d about the holidays.She answered his questions briefly.Then he 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 Do You Call That a Hat The wirters wife was trying on a hat and he didnt like i
43、t. He sat down and waited for her.Then they began arguing again.He had bought a terrible 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 Not Very
44、 MusicalWe watched a snake charmer in a square in Old Delhi. He had a long pipe and two large baskets. 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
45、difference between Indian music and jazz.(64 words)Lesson 43 Over the South Pole In 1929,the American explorer ,R.E.Byrd became 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 orde
46、d his men to throw out two heavy food sacks. The plane then flew over the mountains and continued without further trouble.(63 words)Lesson 44 Through the Forest 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 t
47、rees. 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 straight at them so they dropped the bag and ran away.(66 words)Lesson 45 A Clear Conscience The local buther,Sam Benton,was taking his savings to the post office b
48、ut 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!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 Expensiv
49、e and Uncomfortable 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 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 A Thirsty Ghost Mr. Ian Thompson bought a public house recently but it is haunted,so he is going
