近期，听力成为了大家7炸8炸路上的拦路虎。通过分析他们平时的复习情况以及考场上的反馈，我们不难发现，大部分的同学在Summarize Spoken Text这个题型上存在着这样或那样的问题，更有些同学对于Summarize Spoken Text这个题型甚至是无比抗拒的。

在平时练习中，很多人都不知道应该如何练习Summarize Spoken Text或者如何利用手头上数量有限的机经原文。因此在真实考试中，在Summarize Spoken Text的答题过程中，当听了整个文章后，因为对这个题型的抗拒以及平时练习的不足，这个部分总是答得不够好，最后影响到听力的部分。

今天我们一篇近期的Summarize Spoken Text新题来为大家介绍一下Summarize Spoken Text应该怎样准备，怎样答题。

首先，我们必须要为大家强调一点：

有机经固然好，机经是最好的官方练习题，但是机经只能锦上添花，却不能雪中送炭。我们应该通过对机经进行练习来提高我们自身的水平和能力，而不是死记硬背机经中的回忆。

下面，让我们通过听力原文来剖析一下Babies Just Want to Be Smiled at这道Summarize Spoken Text：

Ever try to get a baby to smile? It can seem close to impossible—and then suddenly there it is: that elusive, seemingly joyous grin. Well it turns out those smiles aren’t spontaneous—they’re strategic.

Researchers have found that when babies smile, it's for a reason. They want whoever they’re interacting with—typically a parent—to smile back. And they time it just so, a smile here and a smile there. The researchers call it sophisticated timing. The study is in the journal PLoS ONE.

The researchers enlisted real mothers and infants and quantified their interactions, which fell into four categories. One: babies wanted to maximize the amount of time smiling at their mothers. Two: they wanted to maximize the time the mothers smiled at them.Three: they wanted to experience simultaneous smiling, and four: no smiling at all.

By studying when smiles happened and what the subsequent effect was, the investigators were able to figure outthat for mothers the goal 70 percent of the time was to be smiling simultaneously—while for babies 80 percent of the time they just wanted their mother smiling at them. So, mothers want the interaction, while babies just want to be smiled at.

So your baby may not be able to feed itself, talk or even turn over yet. But when it comes to smiles, babies seem to know exactly what they're up to.

听完全文，我们可以将这篇文章分为以下几层：

Ever try to get a baby to smile? It can seem close to impossible—and then suddenly there it is: that elusive, seemingly joyous grin. Well it turns out those smiles aren’t spontaneous—they’re strategic.

有没有试过让宝宝微笑？这似乎几乎是不可能的 - 然后突然之间就是：那种难以捉摸的，看似快乐的笑容。事实证明，那些微笑不是自发的 - 他们是战略性的。

第一部分前面几句都是背景知识的介绍，这段的核心句便是It turns out those smiles are strategic.

因此，这段可以简单的概括为：

It turns out babies’ smiles are strategic.

Researchers have found that when babies smile, it's for a reason. They want whoever they’re interacting with—typically a parent—to smile back. And they time it just so, a smile here and a smile there. The researchers call it sophisticated timing. The study is in the journal PLoS ONE.

研究人员发现，当婴儿微笑时，是有原因的。他们希望与他们互动的人 - 通常是父母 - 微笑回来。他们只是这样，在这里微笑，在那里微笑。研究人员称之为复杂的时机。该研究发表在PLoS ONE期刊上。

第二部分主要描述了婴儿向他人微笑只是希望与他们互动的人微笑回来。

因此，这段可以简单的概括为：

Babies just want others who interact with them to smile back

The researchers enlisted real mothers and infants and quantified their interactions, which fell into four categories. One: babies wanted to maximize the amount of time smiling at their mothers. Two: they wanted to maximize the time the mothers smiled at them.Three: they wanted to experience simultaneous smiling, and four: no smiling at all.

研究人员招募了真正的母亲和婴儿并量化了他们的相互作用，这些相互作用分为四类。一：婴儿想要更多的对母亲微笑。二：他们希望母亲对他们更多的微笑。三：他们想要同时微笑，四个：根本不微笑。

第三部分主要讲述了实验的过程，在总结类型的题目中，我们不需要写出实验的过程。

By studying when smiles happened and what the subsequent effect was, the investigators were able to figure outthat for mothers the goal 70 percent of the time was to be smiling simultaneously—while for babies 80 percent of the time they just wanted their mother smiling at them. So, mothers want the interaction, while babies just want to be smiled at.

通过研究微笑何时发生以及后续效应是什么，调查人员能够发现，对于母亲来说，70％的时间他们的目标是同时微笑 - 而对于婴儿来说，80％的时间他们只是希望母亲对他们微笑。 因此，母亲们想要互动，而婴儿只是想要微笑。

这一段讲出了实验的结论，实验的结论是我们的总结中不可或缺的一部分。

因此这段可以概括为：

a research finds that while most mothers want to experience simultaneous smiling and wish to have interaction, most babies just hope their mother to smile at them.

So your baby may not be able to feed itself, talk or even turn over yet. But when it comes to smiles, babies seem to know exactly what they're up to.

所以你的宝宝可能无法自己喂食，说话甚至翻身。但是当谈到微笑时，婴儿似乎确切地知道他们正在做什么。

这一段前面都是铺垫部分，but转折后开始陈述重要信息。

因此这段可以概括为：

Babies seem to know what they are up to

当大家听到这些内容之后，我们只需要将这些内容用连接词有逻辑地串联出来就可以了。

It seems that babies’ smiles are strategic, because they just want others who interact with them to smileback. Moreover, a research finds that while most mothers want to experience simultaneous smiling and wish to have interaction, most babies just hope their mother to smile at them. Thus, babies seem to know what they are up to.

通过上方几个简单的连接词的串联，我们就可以在短时间内迅速解决掉这道近期的Summarize Spoken Text。其实总体来说，如果你已经能听懂一篇文章，那么接下来你只需要保证尽量减少语法和拼写错误，同时有效地运用连接词就可以了。

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