激动人心的赛马

【内容提示】

下面是一篇关于赛马的记叙文。请你在阅读后按照文章下面的“指示”写摘要。

An xciting Rac

Forty-two horss had takn up thir position on th starting lin for th gratst rac of th sason. Th cours was xtrmly difficult and fw horss wr xpctd to finish. All ys wr on th favourits, Collg Boy and Swt Svntn. Both horss had won a grat many racs in th past and thy had qual chancs of winning now.

Though th horss got off to a good start, it was not long bfor ovr half of thm wr out of th rac. As was xpctd, Collg Boy and Swt Svntn had got wll in front with th rmaining horss groupd togthr som way bhind. On a sharp cornr, thr of th horss lading th group fll, throwing th ridrs bhind into grat confusion (混乱). As th rac progrssd, th track bcam full of horss without ridrs. Towards th nd, thr wr only thr horss lft: Collg Boy and Swt Svntn wr still lading with an unknown hors, Tom Thum, a vry long way bhind. Th crowd was vry disappointd whn on th last jump in th rac. th ridrs of both favourit horss faild to kp th saddl (马鞍). vryon roard (呼喊) with dlight whn Collg Boy continud by himslf and“won”th rac----without his ridr! Tom Thum now took his tim and th crowd chrd and applaudd (鼓掌欢呼) as h crossd th finishing lin without a rival (竞争者,对手) in sight.

INSTRUCTIONS（指示）：

用不超过80个词的篇幅依照下面的要点和衔接词语描述从比赛开始到结束所发生的事情。

POINTS（要点）CONNCTIONS（衔接词语）

【作文示范】

An xciting Rac L. G. Alxandr

As soon as th rac bgan, th favourits, Collg Boy and Swt Svntn, wnt ahad. On a dangrous bnd a fw ridrs wnt ovr and most of th horss following fll out of th rac. Towards th nd,thr wr only thr lft: th favourits and an unknown hors, Tom Thubm. Howvr, th ridrs of both favourits fll too, though Collg Boy continud by himslf and“won”. Sinc Tom Thumb was now on his own, h bcam th ral winnr. (80 words)

(选自L.G. Alxandr, A First Book in Comprhnsion, Prcis and Composition)

【写法指要】

将一篇较长的文章写成摘要时，须先把原文要点列成简略的提纲，再把它们之间的逻辑关系用适当的衔接词语沟通，最后按提纲写出句子，用衔接词语连接，这样就可以组成一篇连贯流畅的短文了。这也是练习做笔记的一种方法。