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 volatilized 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 marvelous 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）
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
② 原文要点：
1.continue to have the most confused ideas of death like predecessors
2.avoid talking about death
③ 参考摘要：
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）
The sentry watched a hawk that hovered overhead,looking for some unsuspecting prey to pounce upon.Then he heard the distant,muffled roar of planes,then silence.For the past week he had been told to take note of everything that happened on the hill within his range of vision,and to report anything suspicious.The hill led to an experimental factory,where new and secret weapons were tested.There was a threat of war and the factory would be invaluable to the enemy.So the approaches to it were watched day in,and day out.
He shifted his position；he felt that he had been crouching in the heather since the beginning of the time,but only a couple of hours of the day''s duty had passed.Suddenly he saw something falling from the sky like snow,only it was not snow.He put out his hand and caught bits of that were drifting near him.They were thin strips of metal to confuse delicate instruments,so that it would not be possible to detect the landing of enemy craf.Next he heard a long,low,continuous roar from the east and saw bundles descending from the sky which looked like umbrellas opening,but which be knew to be parachutes with men hanging from them.He wanted to go at once to give the alarm,but he had to be sure that the parachutes were not his own men out on an exercise.The men were on ground now.One of them pointed in the direction of secret factory and they all began marching toward it.He had no more doubts and set off at once down the hill.He crawled slowly,sometimes on his stomach,sometimes on his side ,weaving decided that he had ample cover and started to run.But he had erred,for bullets were soon whistling past him.He drooped flat on the ground.Nobody came to search for him,so he counted up to a hundred and then began crawling again.He moved tortuously and as silently as he could to his camp at the foot of the hill.
Describe in not more than 80 words what the sentry saw and did from the moment when the strips of metal fell from the sky until he got back to his camp.Use your own words as far as possible.Do not include anything that is not in the passage.
1.Points（Saw and Did）
1）Put out hands；caught strip metal.
2）Saw bundles.
3）Waited.
4）Saw men on ground.
5）One pointed；all marched.
6）Went downhill.
7）Crawled-stomach,side-to stream.
8）Started running.
9）Dropped flat（why？-bullets）。
10）Counted 100；crawled.
11）Silently to camp.
2.Rough Draft （Linking of Points） （写得不好的摘要）
When the sentry held out his hand to catch what was falling out of the sky ,he found that it was strips of metal.The bundles began coming down.The sentry waited until men appeared on the ground.One of them pointed and the sentry saw them march towards the factory.Crawling on his stomach and on his side,the sentry moved downhill.He began running when he came to a stream,but dropped down when he was shot at .After counting up to a hundred to himself,he began crawling silently again downhill.（95 words）
3.Fair Copy （Corrected Draft） （写锝比较的摘要）
After catching hold of metal strips falling out of the sky,the sentry saw bundles descending and,after a time,some men appeared on the ground.One of them pointed and they all began marching towards the factory.The sentry crawled downhill on his stomach and on his side.When he came to a stream,he began running but dropped down when the men shot at him.He counted up to a hundred,then silently started crawling again towards his camp.
