Don’t forget to make your summary tight!
People have changing opinions toward dirt over time. In the early 16th century, it was thought that dirt on the skin could protect people from getting ill. However, people have realized that it was good for health to remove dirt since the 18th century. Now, an increasing number of people hold the view that children should be exposed to the dirt to strengthen immune system.
✓Now, more people hold the view that children should be exposed to the dirt to have a powerful immune system.
✓More and more people believe that exposure to some dirt may help our immune system. …
She brought home a lot of books and magazines.
4.消除重复 He didn’t like the city. He hated it.
He disliked the city.
5. 把直接引语的主要信息变为间接引语
The boss said to him, “ Till you’re more experienced you can cover a story.” The boss said that with more experience he could cover news.
C.核查 核查连贯性
+ 优先考虑使用最短连接词（but、 then、later、finally、besides、 thus、therefore、yet、however） 核查标点和语法
核查字数（60-80words）
2016年《考试说明》概要写作样题
段落
核心信息
功能
1
•… there is nothing fixed about attitudes to dirt.
论据
3 • …cleaning away dirt is good to health.
•nowadays
4
• …an American immunologist, encourages children to play in the dirt
to build up a strong immune system.
7.基本句型间灵活转换
Dirt on the skin was a means to block out disease.
S+V+P
S+V+O
Dirt on the skin could protect people from getting ill.
8. 特殊句式（强调句，倒装句，there be） 和正常语序句式的转化 To research whether such a “sixth sense” really exists, Robert Baker, …
• In the early 16th century, people
thought that dirt on the skin was a
2 means to block out disease…. • France/England
• In Europe
论点 +
• … since the 18th century
How to writing a good summary?
A. 定位 find out the essential information B. 改写 rewrite the information in your own
words C. 核查 check the sentences and add some
conjunctions
A.定位
通过阅读定位语篇的核心信息，包括核心 单词，核心短语和核心句子。 （句子为主，以单词和短语为辅）
1. 确定文体 the types of the passage
types
key information
记叙文 narration
人物+时间+地点+事件（起因+发展 +结果）
there is really a sixth sense
Only if you ask many different questions will you acquire all the information.
You will obtain all the information if various questions are asked.
B. 改写
在核心信息的基础上进行语言表达形式 的改写，对原文的语言表达形式尽可能实现 大规模的改变。
改写过程中，原则上字 数不超过原句，不改变 原文的逻辑结构，充分 考虑语句压缩。
1. 使用近义词或反义词
study
if
To research whether such a “sixth sense”
How to get a high mark?
《考试说明》中评分标准规定概要写 作阅卷时按5个档次给分，其中最高档次第 五档（21-25points）：
1. 理解准确，涵盖全部要点；contents (内容)
2. 能准确使用相应的语法结构和词汇；
3. 完全使用自己的语言；language skills (语言)
6. 主动句和被动句互换
Robert Baker, a psychologist at the University of Kentucky, performed two experiments.
Two experiments were carried out by a psychologist.
2.把短语变为单词 Cleaning away dirt is good to health.
Cleaning away dirt benefits health.
3.使用广义词(general words)代替具体词 (specific words)
She brought home several Chinese and English novels, a few copies of Time and Newsweek, and some textbooks.
really exists, Robert Baker performed two
experiments.
carried out/ did/made
Never will Zhou Yang forget his first assignment as a journalist.
Zhou Yang will remember his first task as a reporter.
…
• Nowadays
now /at present
• …an American immunologist, encourages
children to play in the dirt to build up a
strong immune system.
advise,
some
suggest,
powerful scientists expose… to hold the view
✓Changing viewpoints toward dirt exist.
✓People’s viewpoints towards dirt are changing.
…
It was thought that…/People believed that…
• In the early 16th century, people thought that
dirt on the skin was a means to block out
disease….
S+V+P
S+V+O
• •
FInrsaEonmucreeoEp/ ueErnogpelaanndcountries
protect…from…; prevent…from…;
illness, getting ill
✓In the early 16th century, people including some Europeans believed that dirt protected people from getting ill.
benefit your health, keep…healthy
• …since the 18th century • …cleaning away dirt is good to health.
• … there is nothing fixed about attitudes to dirt.
have, exist, S+V+P
changing
opinions， viewpoints
✓People have changing opinions toward dirt over time.
remove, wash…off
ng A is good to B