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现代大学英语（第二版）基础写作（上）教师用书 Unit 3 Task One: Summary Writing Activity 1 Summarizing a story section by section  Summarize “The Midnight Visitor,” using the above guidelines just given and those stated in the previous units. Here are some questions for you to think about while reading the text. 1. Ausable, an American secret agent. A summary should focus on him because the story portrays the main character rather than narrates an incident he is involved in. 2. Max, the German spy. He is important and shouldn’t be left out because the conflict is the struggle between him and Ausable. 3. Fowler, the young American writer. He has no part in the conflict. In the story his function is to heighten a professional secret agent’s presence of mind against an inexperienced young writer’s fright in a dangerous situation. Section 1 (Paras. 1 – 4)  Study the three summaries that describe the main character. Explain which of them is the best, and what is wrong with the other two. Summary 1 is the best of the three. It is objective, complete, and balanced. Second, the length is just right, about one-fourth of the original. Summary 2 focuses on a minor character although the length is all right. Summary 3 includes an unimportant detail in the last but one sentence. The second half is a repetition of what is stated in the opening sentence. And an important detail—Fowler’s presence and his impression of Ausable—is left out. Section 2 (Paras. 5 – 13)  Summarize this section orally, making your summary one-third to one-fourth the length of the original. Before you summarize the passage answer these questions and list the important points you think should be included in the summary. 1. He told Fowler that he would soon witness something exciting—an important paper was to be delivered to him. 2. It was a German secr