任务型写作任务型写作,主要有两种体裁:读记叙文,写议论文;读议论文,写记叙文。
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练习一:阅读下面文段,概括全篇,并找出与之搭配的概括技巧。
Skill 1:Omit the detailsSkill 2:Omit the repetitionsSkill 3:Omit the examplesSkill 4:Use general words instesd of specific wordsSkill 5:Put the main points of the dialogues in indirect speech( ) 1. You can think of a way to manage your temper. Here are some tips: (1) You should try to calm down and figure out what you are really upset about. (2) Keep a diary. It can help you understand more about yourself and your feeling. (3) You can try to talk with your best friends to release stressful emotions.概括:_________________________________________________________________________________________ ( ) 2. Nowadays more and more teenagers try to be more independent from their parents and sometimes become very rebellious. They always want to wear long and strange hair style,which their parents complain about a lot. They also spend too much on the Internet and playing computer games.概括:_________________________________________________________________________________________ ( ) 3. Kate looked at Paul disapprovingly, “You put too much salt on your food, Paul. It’s not at all good for you! ” Paul put down his knife and frowned, “Why on earth not! If you don’t have salt on your food it would taste awful…like eating wood or sand…just imagine bread without salt in it!”概括:_________________________________________________________________________________________ ( ) 4. She bought a lot of vegetables such as cabbage,carrots, cucumbers,tomatoes, potatoes and some eggs.She intended to invite all her friends to her birthday party at the weekend.概括:_________________________________________________________________________________________ 练习二:阅读下面文段,用30个左右的词概括全篇内容。
1. Advertising can be a service to customers. This is true when ads give reliable information about the goods advertised. Such information is needed if the customer is to make a wise choice when buying something. It is useful because it can help the customer know more about the kind of goods available. Printed ads do this job best. Customers can collect them and compare them. They can be used to check against the actual goods in the ships. Some ads are not very useful to customers. Instead of helping the customer to satisfy his real needs, they set out to make him unnecessary things. The people who produce them understand our weaknesses. They set out to make us believe that what they advertise will make us cleverer, prettier, or more handsome, if only we use it. For example, the voice on TV says, “By using SK-II, it makes your skin crystal.” The screen shows a series of pictures in which a famous actress not only has her skin whitened but also has her pronounced wrinkles silkily smoothed. Some ladies with dark skin wil be persuaded to choose that comestic.(1)请先在文中找出主题句,并画线。
(2)请用自己的语言概括文中的主题句,千万不要抄袭原文,更不能有自己的观点。
(3)适当使用一些连接词和精华句子,并把字数控制在30词左右。
Summary: Advertising is ______________________________ because ___________________________________ ________________. However, it can also __________________________ because ___________________________ ________________________________________.2. It must have been abou two in the morning when I returned home. I tried to wake up my wife by ringing the doorbell, but she was fast asleep. So I got a ladder from the shed in the garden, put it against the wall, and began climbing towards the bedroom wiindow. I was almost there when a sarcastic voice below said, “I don’t think the window need cleaning at this time if the night.” I looked down and nearly feel off the ladder when I saw a policeman.I immediately regretted answering in the way I did, but I said, “I enjoyed cleaning windows at nights.”“So do I,” answered the policeman in the same tone. “Excuse my inteerrupting you. I hate to interrupt a man when he’s busy working, but would you mind coming with me to the station?”“Well, I’d prefer to stay here,” I said. “You see, I’ve forgotten my key.”“Your what?” he called.“My key,” I shouted.Fortunately, the shouting woke up my wife who opened the windowjust as the policeman had started to climbed towards me.(1)这是一篇记叙文,请在文中划出时间、地点、人物及事情的经过和结果。
(2)填充下面所给的summary ,注意如何借用词法、语法精简句子。
Summary: On arriving home __________________ in the morning, the writer failed to wake up ________________ by ringing the doorbell. He then tried to _____________________ but was found by ___________________ . Soon his shouting woke his wife.练习三记叙文Several years ago, while attending a communication course, I experienced a most unusual process. The instructor asked us to list anything in our past that we felt ashamed of, or regretted and find ways to apologize to people affected, or take some action to right any wrongdoings.。