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Practice 4 Listen to the following passage. Write in English a short summary of around 150-200 words of what you have heard. You will hear the passage only once and then you will have 25 minutes to finish your summary. This part of the test carries 20 points. You may need to scribble a few notes to write your summary. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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【参考答案】
综述内容应包括5个主要点信息和9个次要点信息中的5个。下划线部分为主要点, 斜体部分为次要点。
Writing gives you unique ways to think through ideas deeply, come to know subjects well, and absorb those subjects into your lifelong store of knowledge. Even thirty years later, many people can recall details about the topics and content of essays they wrote in college, but far fewer people can recall specifics of a classroom lecture or a textbook chapter.1 By writing, you activate brain processes that help you make connections among your thoughts.2 Such connecting gives you potential access to the pleasures of shocks of recognition, moments when suddenly your mind leaps from what you know to what you did not ‘‘see” before. This access to new insights and increased knowledge are usually unavailable until the physical act of writing begins.
Writing helps you clarify your ideas by having to think about them and put them into words. The ability to “think about thinking” belongs uniquely to human beings. Such reflective thinking permits you to look back at your ideas, reconsider and perhaps rearrange them, and then perhaps revise them in writing each time getting closer to what you want to say.3The writer E. M. Forster said this about writing, thinking, and reflecting: “How can I know what I mean until I've seen what I said?”
Your writing teaches others about your subject. Through writing, you create a permanent record of your ideas for others to read and think about. Reading informs and shapes human thought. In an open, free, democratic society, every person is welcome to write and thereby create reading for others.4 For such freedom of idea exchange to thrive, writing and reading skills cannot be concentrated in only a select group of people. All of us need access to the power of the written word. In college, you can exercise that power by writing many different types of assignments. Doing so prepares you for today’s highly technological workplace, in which jobs demand reading with understanding and writing with skill when creating documents that range from letters to formal reports. Also, the ability to write well identifies you as all educated person,5 someone who is well-informed and up-to-date and can be depended on to use language clearly and effectively.
Four elements define writing: writing is a way of communicating a message for a purpose to readers. Communicating in writing means sending a message that has a destination.6The message of the writing is its content, which originates in your engaging in one or more of the processes of observing, remembering, reporting, explaining, exploring, interpreting, speculating and evaluating. Purpose for writing can be many, as will be discussed later. Readers, also called your audience, are the destination your writing must reach. Taking readers into account as your write is crucial to your success as a communicator.
Purposes for writing concern a writer’s goals, sometimes called aims of writing or writing intentions. Purpose for writing originates from the motivating forces behind what is being written. The purposes of writing to express yourself and to create a literary work contribute importantly to human thought and culture.7 These purposes offer you the pleasure of writing for yourself as audience and of creatively composing a work of literature for others to read. I concentrate on the two purposes most prominent and practical in your academic life: to inform a reader and to persuade a reader.8 In the service of these purposes, writers can choose among and even combine many effective writing strategies.9 These strategies include narrating, describing, illustrating, defining, analyzing and classifying, comparing and contrasting, drawing an analogy, and considering cause and effect.
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Writing gives you unique ways to think through ideas deeply, come to know subjects well, and absorb those subjects into your lifelong store of knowledge. Even thirty years later, many people can recall details about the topics and content of essays they wrote in college, but far fewer people can recall specifics of a classroom lecture or a textbook chapter. By writing, you activate brain processes that help you make connections among your thoughts. Such connecting gives you potential access to the pleasures of shocks of recognition, moments when suddenly your mind leaps from what you know to what you did not ‘‘see” before. This access to new insights and increased knowledge are usually unavailable until the physical act of writing begins.
Writing helps you clarify your ideas by having to think about them and put them into words. The ability to “think about thinking” belongs uniquely to human beings. Such reflective thinking permits you to look back at your ideas, reconsider and perhaps rearrange them, and then perhaps revise them in writing each time getting closer to what you want to say. The writer E. M. Forster said this about writing, thinking, and reflecting: “How can I know what I mean until I've seen what I said?”
Your writing teaches others about your subject. Through writing, you create a permanent record of your ideas for others to read and think about. Reading informs and shapes human thought. In an open, free, democratic society, every person is welcome to write and thereby create reading for others. For such freedom of idea exchange to thrive, writing and reading skills cannot be concentrated in only a select group of people. All of us need access to the power of the written word. In college, you can exercise that power by writing many different types of assignments. Doing so prepares you for today’s highly technological workplace, in which jobs demand reading with understanding and writing with skill when creating documents that range from letters to formal reports. Als0, the ability to write well identifies you as all educated person, someone who is well-informed and up-to-date and can be depended on to use language clearly and effectively.
Four elements define writing: writing is a way of communicating a message for a purpose to readers. Communicating in writing means sending a message that has a destination. The message of the writing is its content, which originates in your engaging in one or more of the processes of observing, remembering, reporting, explaining, exploring, interpreting, speculating and evaluating. Purpose for writing can be many, as will be discussed later. Readers, also called your audience, are the destination your writing must reach. Taking readers into account as your write is crucial to your success as a communicator.
Purposes for writing concern a writer’s goals, sometimes called aims of writing or writing intentions. Purpose for writing originates from the motivating forces behind what is being written. The purposes of writing to express yourself and to create a literary work contribute importantly to human thought and culture. These purposes offer you the pleasure of writing for yourself as audience and of creatively composing a work of literature for others to read. I concentrate on the two purposes most prominent and practical in your academic life: to inform a reader and to persuade a reader. In the service of these purposes, writers can choose among and even combine many effective writing strategies. These strategies include narrating, describing, illustrating, defining, analyzing and classifying, comparing and contrasting, drawing an analogy, and considering cause and effect.
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