■ 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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In the reading passage, there is ample support for the author’s claim that the roles of a crest of Lambeosaurus can be explained by three theories. However, the professor in the lecture gives several reasons as a rebuttal to the author’s point.
First, the professor contends that mates theory does not match what we know about the dinosaurs. To be specific, it is doubtful that the creatures used their crests in order to obtain their mates. Rather, it is likely that the creatures used their sounds to attract mates because they are related to some dinosaurs which made noises to attract mates. Given this fact, it is reasonable to assume that the dinosaurs used the similar methods. This casts doubt on the reading passage’s claim that the dinosasurs used their crests to attract mates because their crests changed accoring their ages and it can be an ideal method to be noticed by mates.
Next, the professor insists that it is doubtful that the crests were used for fightings. To explain, recent fossil records suggest that their crest extended backward. If the dinosaurs’ crests were used to defend themselves from predators or attack other animals, their crests would have extended forward. Besides, because the crests were hollow, they were too fragile to act as a defense or attack. This counters the reading passage’s assertion that Lambeosaurus’s crests were used for defense or attack because most dinosaurs combat head-to-head.
Finally, the professor argues that it is not plausible that the crests provided air. This is because the dinosaurs were massive creatures which need a lot of oxygen to breath. On the other hand, the crests were very small compared to their body size. Even though the crest were able to contain some amount of air, the amount of air was not enough for the dinosaur to spend a lot of time in the water keeping their heads under the surface. This refutes the reading passage’s suggestion that the dinosaurs’ crests were helpful to contain air, which made the creatures to find their food in the water for a long time.
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리딩에 대한 정보가 많이 부족한 통합형 에세이입니다. 통합형 에세이에서 가장 중요한 부분을 차지하는 것은 한 주제에 대하여서 서로 다른 정보를 가지고 있는 리딩과 리스닝이 어떻게 비교하고 반박을 하는 것인지를 보는 것 입니다. 지금 이 에세이 같은 경우에 있어서는 리딩에 대한 부분을 각 단락에서 한 문장으로만 서술하였는데. 한 문장으로 끝내는 것 보다는 리스닝을 좀 더 반박할 수 있는 부분들을 더 서술하시길 바랍니다. 수고많으셨습니다.