它用最简洁的语言概括了摘要是对一篇文章的主题思想的简单陈述。）32）写作；（写摘要主要包括三个步骤：原文的主题。（1）阅读；（修改成文。
第一步：阅读
．认真阅读给定的原文材料。如果一遍不能理解，就多读两遍。阅A 读次数越多，你对原文的理解就越深刻。
．给摘要起一个标题。用那些能概括文章主题思想的单词、短语或B 主题句往往出也可以采用文中的主题句作为标题。短句子作为标题。现在文章的开头或结尾。一个好标题有助于确定文章的中心思想。．现在，就该决定原文中哪些部分重要，哪些部分次重要了。对重C 要部分的主要观点进行概括。
主题、标题、细节等你认为对概括摘要．简要地记下主要观点——D 重要的东西。
第二步：动手写作
摘要应该只有原文的三分之一或四分之一长。因此首先数一下原A. 文的字数，然后除以三，得到一个数字。摘要的字数可以少于这个数字，但是千万不能超过这个数字。
摘要应全部用自己的话完成。不要引用原文的句子。B.
应该遵循原文的逻辑顺序。这样你就不必重新组织观点、事实。C.
摘要必须全面、清晰地表明原文所载的信息，以便你的读者不需D. 翻阅原文就可以完全掌握材料的原意。
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写摘要时可以采用下列几种小技巧：E.
删除细节。只保留主要观点。1)
个或更多的例子，你只需52) 选择一至两个例子。原文中可能包括从中筛选一至二个例子。
把长段的描述变成短小、简单的句子。如果材料中描述某人或某3) 事用了十个句子，那么你只要把它们变成一两句即可。
可能会重复论证说明。为了强调某个主题，避免重复。在原文中，4) 但是这在摘要中是不能使用的。应该删除那些突出强调的重述句。
压缩长的句子。如下列两例：5)
like.”“His courage in battle might without exaggeration be called lion-
”He was very brave in battle.”可以概括为：
“He was hard up for money and was being pressed by his creditor.”“He was in financial difficulties.”可以概括为：
你还可以使用词组代替整句或者从句。请看下面的例子：6) “Beautiful mountains like Mount Tai, Lushan Mountain, and Mount Huang, were visited by only a few people in the past. Today, better wages,
holidays with pay, new hotels on these mountains, and better train and
bus services, have brought them within reach of many who never thought of visiting them ten years ago.”
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”Beautiful mountains like Mount Tai, once visited by only a 可以概括为：
few people, are today accessible to many, thanks to better wages, paid holidays, new hotels and better transportation services.”
使用概括性的名词代替具体的词，比如：7)
“She brought home several Chinese and English novels, a few copies of Time and Newsweek and some textbooks. She intended to read all of them during the winter vocation.”
”She brought home a lot of books to read during the 可以概括为：vocation.”
，使用最短的连接词。比如，可以使用but, then, thus, yet, though）8 at the same time, in the first place, because of these, on the 不能使用等较长的连接词。通常，使用分号就能够达成使用连接词other hand的效果。
文章中的第一人称说的话通常在摘要中转换成第三人称，从而把9) 大段的对白简化，比如：
Kate looked at Paul disapprovingly: You use too much salt on your food, it's not good for you!”Paul put down his knife and
—Paul
frowned:”Why on earth not! If you didn't have salt on your food it would just imagine bread without taste awful…like eating cardboard or sand…salt in it, or potatoes or pasta cooked without salt!”Kate was patient. She didn't want to quarrel with Paul. She wanted to persuade him. She said
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firmly:”But too much salt is bad for you. It cause high blood pressure and latter on, heart-attacks. It also disguises the taste of food, the real tastes which are much more subtle than salt, and which we have lost the sensitivity to appreciate any more.”
可以用第三人称概括为：
Kate suggested to Paul that he should eat less salt. She thought that eating too much salt would do harm to Paul's health and that it could reduce the real tastes of food. But Paul disagreed. He said that food without salt would be tasteless.
第三步：修改成文
草稿拟好以后，对它进行修改。首先，与原文比较看是否把所有重要的观点都概括了，摘要中的观点是否与原文中的完全一致。其次，如果摘要中出现了不必要的词汇、短语或长句子，删除它们。第三，检查拼写、语法和标点符号的错误。最后，保持语言简单明了。
经过上述步骤和方法，一篇摘要就可以完成了。
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