■ 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
▶ Topic :
▶ Your Answer :
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 dinosaurs used their crests to attract mates because their crests changed according to 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 crests (단복수)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.
2. 철자 오류가 잦은 편입니다. 심한 감점의 요인이 될 수 있으니, 에세이 작성을 마치시고 꼼꼼히 검토해주세요.
+) 단어를 외우실 때 스펠링을 집중적으로 외워주세요.
3. 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.
4. 전체적으로 body paragraph가 상당히 짧은 편입니다.
최대한 상세하게 설명해주세요.
수고하셨습니다. *^^*