■ 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
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▶ Topic : Reading passage: A decline of literature causes several problems. 1) public lost their intellectual stimulation 2) cultural standard will be lowered 3) lack of readers cause losing the support of great writers Lecture: A decline of literature does not cause problems. 1) public can receive intellectual stimulation from reading other books such as science, history, political and so on 2) people still improve their cultural standards through non-literature forms--music and movies 3) lack of literature is author's fault because modern literature is too difficult to understand. There is no evidence that earlier readers have read more literature than today's readers. |
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▶ Your Answer :
The reading passage claims
that young people are reading far less literature and this situation has
several predicaments. In the lecture, however, the professor flatly contradicts
the reading, arguing that disadvantages mentioned in the reading are not as
great as what the lecture states--in fact, the trend of less literature does
not give rise to serious problems.
First
of all, the professor asserts that there are many other books which give
intellectual stimulation as literature does. This casts doubt on the reading's
assertion that only literature provides us with intellectual stimulus. Hence, a
decline in literature reading causes the public missing out on considerable benefits
from reading literature. To corroborate her assertion, she points out that instead
of literature, there are high quality and well-written books such as
science-related, political and history books. From reading these books, people
can improve their creative thinking and enhance their imagination. It is not
appropriate to assume that people who do not read literature are not thinking
intellectually or clever.
Additionally,
the speaker completely refutes one of the points in the reading that a myriad
of people tends to watch televisions, a music video or look up websites which
bring about the lower level of culture in general. As opposed to the reading, the
professor maintains that non-literature does not lower the standard levels of
culture. To be more specific, it is true that people spend less time on books
in general; on the contrary, they enhance their cultural backgrounds via
non-written versions such as music and movie. Simply put, one who listens to
several brilliant songs does not mean that they are wasting their time. As a
matter of fact, there are many types of cultural expressions available these
days; what is more, they speak more directly to contemporary society's
concerns.
Last
but not least, the lecturer contends that a decline in literature is due to the
authors, not the readers' faults. This is the opposite of the reading's point
of view that many capable writers are losing their chances to show up their
writing skills because they lack readers who could be able to read such a
difficult and demanding literature. Since the audience is lacking their ability
to read those hard books, book publishing companies tend to invest less in
developing literature, giving fewer opportunities to the authors. To validate
her assertion, she argues that people should blame the authors, not the
audiences. It is true that modern literature is highly difficult to understand
the contents. Furthermore, there is no such evidence that previous readers have
read a lot of literature than today's readers.
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sum, the professor affirms that the reading is too groundless to accept. |
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첨삭해주신 선생님께,
안녕하세요 선생님.
저는 약 7년전? 2012년에 라이팅 부분에서 늘 30점만점을 획득했었는데요...
지난주에 한번 7년만에 쳤는데 라이팅에서 20점을 받았습니다....(너무 충격..)
integrated 통합형 부문에서 항상 225 words라고 했는데,
위에 제가 쓴 내용은 450이라서 양이 너무 많아도 문제가 되는건지 궁금합니다. (저는 최대한 리스닝 부분을 다 받아적고 요약하려했지만 ...)
감사합니다.