도움이 될것같아서 올립니다.
official 시험에 나왔던거구요 (제가 쓴거 아닙니다) 비록 reading passage랑 lecture은 같이 못올리지만 이거라도.
그 pre-test 에 high-scoring response라고 써있더군요
처음에 봤을때 생각보다 너무 짧아서 놀랬음.
토픽은 "Altruism of humans and other mammals" 대강 이런거였어요.
Model response
The lecture completely refutes the passage. It is said in the lecture that, the perceived acts of altruism are nothing more than sneaky methods of gaining advantage for onself. Contrary to the belief in the passage that sentinels risk their lives for the cause of the whole of the group, the professor claims that meerkat sentinels are in fact less prone to outside threats. The alarm sentinels give off causes the group to move rashly which draws attention towards them, thus drawing away the attention from the sentinels. The lecture refutes the fact that these meerkats are altruistic in the sense that they gain nothing in exchange of their services. In fact researches have shown that they have a full stomach as they perform this “altruistic” duty and have a chance of escaping from danger, because they witness it first. The professor also offers a different underlying motivation that causes people to believe that acts such as donating an organ or sharing food with someone in need, are altruistic. She says that people gain appreciation as a result of such acts which may be deemed by some much more omportant than materialistic gains.