摘要題型寫作是難度非常大的一種寫作形式。隨著考生英語(論壇)水平的不斷提高，這種題型引起考生的普遍重視。

1）摘要題型寫作要點

① 動筆之前，考生一定要認真仔細地閱讀所給原文，弄懂原文大意，掌握原文要點；

② 摘要的長度一般是原文的四分之一或五分之一，考試時應遵守規定的字數限制；

③ 在做摘要時考生切忌照搬原文；

④ 摘要應與原文的觀點保持一致，并且仍按原文的邏輯順序排列；

⑤ 重點反映主要觀點，刪除細節；

⑥ 簡化從句，用簡短的語句代替冗長的語句；

⑦ 檢查與修改時，考生應重點檢查是否遺漏了原文的要點或包含了細節。

2）摘要題型寫作實例

① 試題題目

Directions:

Study the following essay carefully and write a summary in about 80 words.

We continue to share with our remotest ancestors the most tangled and evasive

attitudes about death, despite the great distance we have come in understanding some

of the profound aspects of biology. We have as much distaste for talking about personal death as for thinking about it; it is an indelicacy, like talking in mixed company about venereal disease or abortion in the old days. Death on a grand scale does not bother us in the same special way: we can sit around a dinner table and discuss war, involving 60 billion volatilised human deaths, as though we were talking about bad weather; we can watch abrupt bloody death every day, in color, on films and television, without blinking back a tear. It is when the numbers of dead are very small, and very close, that we begin to think in scurrying circles. At the very center of the problem is the naked cold deadness of one's own self, the only reality in nature of which we can have absolute certainty, and it is unmentionable, unthinkable. We may be even less willing to face the issue at first hand than our predecessors because of a secret new hope that maybe it will go away. We like to think, hiding the thought, that with all the marvellous ways in which we seem now to lead nature around by the nose, perhaps we can avoid the central problem if we just become, next year, say, a bit smarter. (246 words)

② 原文要點

(1) Continue to have the most confused ideas of death like predecessors

(2) Avoid talking about death

(3) Talk about death when millions of people die

(4) Become confused and anxious when each time the dead people are very few and the death rates are almost equal

(5) People's fearfulness

(6) Seem to control nature

(7) Avoid death

參考摘要

People dislike talking about death because they just like their predecessors still have the vaguest ideas of the issue. They talk about death only when million upon millions of people are killed in war. When they find only very few people die each time and the death rates are almost equal, they become very anxious, thinking that next time they themselves will meet their doom. Therefore, they fear very much. However, they have a hope that when they control nature, they can avoid death. (84 words)