■ Direction You have 20 minutes to plan and write your response. You response will be judge 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 : zoos have many beneficial advantage. Lecture : Benefits of zoos are questionable. |
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In the lecture, the professor cast doubts on the reading passage's idea that zoos are beneficial in some ways. The professor says that zoos are actually not as beneficial as people might think.
To begin with, the professor claims that zoo's advantage of protection and continuation of endangered species is in question. According to the reading, endangered species can survive and, even, preserve their species, under the zoo's protection. However, the professor says that the zoo's capacity for protecting endangered species are inadequate because there are too small space for protecting endangered species.
On top of that, the professor assaults that benefits of science research on animals in zoo is not reliable. According to the reading, zoos are beneficial for science research on animals because the scientists can observe animal's behavior quite easily in the zoo rather in wild. However, the professor claims that animals in zoo environment is artificial or not natural situation because they in captivity. Also, she mentions that animal behavior in zoo could different with the animals in wild.
Finally, the professor claims that zoo's educational benefits are qutire over exaggerated. According to the reading, visitors of zoo could learn many thing about animal in person, and, also they can understand the importance of perservation of animals. However, the professor claims that zoo's educational benefit is nonsense becasue many people visit zoo as entertaining purpose not educational purpose. Moreover, she refers that there are other ways to lean animal more reasonable way.