Question

【题目】阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。

If you take a look at the best-selling books in the UK these days, it is almost certain that there will be a lot of autobiographies (自传) in that list. Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela and actor Michael J Fox have all written them. An autobiography is the story of a person’s life, written by that person. It is usually a very famous person who might tell us all about their childhood, how they became famous and any other interesting things that have happened in their lives.

Traditionally, someone would write an autobiography when they were older because they had had a long, successful life. However, these days there are many magazines with stories and photos of the stars which sell very well. Reality TV shows are extremely popular and lots of people become famous very easily just from being on the TV rather than being able to sing or act well. As a result, people become famous very quickly and as soon as they are famous, a lot of money can be made from writing an autobiography, even if they are very young.

So now you can find an autobiography from almost everyone who is in the public eye. Even though we can follow the lives of the stars very closely on TV or in magazines nowadays, we maybe don’t know how they live their lives from day to day. Autobiographies often give the information we never knew about the stars. The British public are very curious to find out more so they are very eager to read autobiographies.

Not every star wants to write though. Sometimes stars employ writers to write their life stories for them. The writer will interview the stars, listen to everything they want to say, record interviews and then write books based on their words. David Beckham did this with his book My Side.

Not everyone likes to read books regularly but they might like to read about the lives of stars. Autobiographies are helping to get more British people reading books. About 100 million autobiographies are sold in Britain every year. More stars depend on them for extra income and as more of these books appear in the shops, more people are sure to keep buying them.

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Answer 1

【答案】Autobiographies, stories written by famous people about themselves, are popular in the UK. (要点1) But unlike traditional ones, many of today’s autobiographies are about young stars who rise to fame quickly. (要点2) As they often contain information unknown before, readers are keen on reading them. (要点3) Not fond of writing, however, some celebrities hire writers to write their autobiographies. (要点4) Besides, due to autobiographies, more British people are involved in reading now. (要点5) (68 words)

【解析】这是一篇短文缩写题。不像传统作文一样，需要考生自己组织语言，考生只需要将文章的主旨和要点一一列出即可，如果这样词数还太多，就要考虑删去那些起修饰作用的词，如形容词，从句等。还要注意为了使文章更加连贯和具有逻辑性，还需要添加一些连词。

【范文亮点】：

1．本文将文章的要点表达的明确清晰，全面，毫无赘余。是一篇不错的范文。文章使用了 however,Besides,等连词，使文章语言自然流畅，内容过渡自然，增加了文章的可读性，使文章的表达更具有逻辑性，更富有条理。

2.Autobiographies, stories written by famous people about themselves, are popular in the UK. written by……过去分词作定语.

3.As they often contain information unknown before, readers are keen on reading them. As引导的原因状语从句。