■ Direction You have 20 minutes to plan and write your response. Your response will be judged on the basis of The quality of writing and on how well your response presents the points in the lecture and the relationship to the reading passage. Typically, an effective response will be 150 to 225 words.
■ Question Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard, explaining how they cast doubt on the points made in the reading

▶ Your Answer :

    In the reading passage, the author maintains that selling fossils to individual collectors is unreasonable for several reasons. The professor in the lecture contradicts the author's points by stating that the advantages of privatalization of fossils overwhelms its disadvantages.

    First, the professor contends that the fossils are not less exposed to the public. It is still available to public institutions for making purchase of them and actually a lot of schools and libraries display the fossils. This casts doubt on the reading passage's argument that the mass go through difficulty to reveal unearthed relics to the public because of the private collectors and this hardness to view will lower the interests of the researchers.

    Next, the professor argues that the fossil is needed to be examined by science experts to evaluate its value before transferring to market. Even though it eventually goes to the private side, scientists have to implement several scrutinies, meaning that they are missing any prominent facts. This refutes the reading passage's suggestion that as the proximity to the fossil is diminished, scientists will lose the chance to view crucial part of the fossils and they will be negligent to perform their missions.

    Finally, the professor suggests that even though the private collectors harm the fossil's condition, it is better for us to get more remains uncovered, providing laboratory institutions with more chances to look over them. This counters the reading passage's assertion that the private collectors ruin immeasurable scientific relics since they are not well aware of its prominence and lack the appropriate knowledge.