■ 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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▶ Your Answer :
There is ample support for the author’s claim that three theories can explain why the Maya Empire collapsed. However, in the lecture, the professor gives several reasons as a rebuttal to the author’s point.
First, the professor contends that archeologists failed to figure out what happened in Maya society. To be specific, there is no historical record of revolts even though there was a sophisticated writing system in the Maya Empire. Moreover, Maya society was decentralized and each state had a government and ruler. Even though there was a revolution in a state, there is a low possibility that a revolt was spread to nearby states. This casts doubt on the reading passage’s claim that destruction of buildings in Maya society indicates that there was a revolt.
Next, the professor insists that it is implausible that people left their cities. To explain, it is true that Teotihuacan played a key role in trade in May society, but its importance already had declined before the collapse of the Maya Empire. Teotihuacan was (수동태) already abandoned 1000 years prior to the collapse of the Empire. This counters the reading passage’s assertion that people had no option but to abandon the city because of the destruction of Teotihuacan which was a trade hub.
Finally, the professor argues that diseases can not explicate why the Empire collapsed. Before European conquerors arrived in the region, Mayan had never been exposed to the disease such as yellow fever and malaria. Besides, if there had been such epidemic, there should have been massive graves which indicate that a lot of people died at that time. This refutes the reading passage’s suggestion that mayan people were susceptible to the pandemic because they lived in the area densely and the climate was suitable for parasites to spread.
1. 각 문단 시작 전에 tab 버튼 눌러서 들여쓰기 해주세요.
3. 철자 오류가 잦은 편입니다. 심한 감점의 요인이 될 수 있으니, 에세이 작성을 마치시고 꼼꼼히 검토해주세요.
+) 단어를 외우실 때 스펠링을 집중적으로 외워주세요.
4. reading and listening의 비율이 너무 listening쪽으로만 치우쳐져 있습니다.
비율은 5:5, 적어도 6:4 정도는 되어야 합니다.
이는 리딩에 대한 디테일 부족으로 이어지며, 분량 부족, 추가 설명 실패 등으로 이어질 수 있으니
리딩에서도 evidence를 많이 찾아서 써주시면 좋을 것 같습니다.
바디가 많이 짧은 편이므로 분량을 늘리는데 집중해주세요.
수고하셨습니다. *^^*