■ 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> At its peak during the eight and ninth centuries, the Maya Empire consisted of approximately sixty cities and was home to over four million people. ...
<Listening> We have spent a couple of weeks now discussing the Maya Empire. ...
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▶ Your Answer : The reading and the lecturer both talk about sudden collapse of Maya Empire. The reading argued there are three reasons to explain how they were ruined. However, the lecturer disagreed with that opinion by manifesting three reasons.
First, the reading said there was big revolution in central city by peasants. Main government forced peasants to construct massive stone monuments and this caused huge scale of revolt. The lecturer said it is not true. Maya Empire had sophisticated writing systems, but there are no records of revolt. In addition, there were several cities in Maya Empire that have individual and independent government, so revolt in only one city cannot explain the whole ruin of the Maya Empire.
Secondly, the reading stated that trade route of empire was changed suddenly and it caused the destruction of economy in empire. In contrast, the lecturer casts a doubt on this reason because there are much time between devastation of trade hub and decline of population in Maya Empire. Destruction of trade hub was about 6th century, and abandonment of Maya cities was about 12th century.
Finally, the last reason of the reading is epidemic disaster such as parasite diseases or yellow fever. The density of cities of Maya Empire was extremely high, and they did not have proper defense of that. However, the lecturer said this explanation is also invalid. The kinds of diseases that mentioned by reading passage was moved to Central America by Spanish in 16th century, and it is over 400 years after the ruin of Maya Empire. Moreover, scientists have to find the evidence of mass death such as big graves but there are nothing to evidence that statement.
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자꾸 150~225단어 제한을 못 지키고 있는데, 이것에 대한 감점은 없나요? 쓰다보니 계속 양이 많아져요. 각 문단마다
리딩 주장 한 문장, 설명 한 문장. + 리스닝 반박 한 문장, 설명 한 문장 (혹은 두 문장)
이렇게 구성하고 있습니다. 아무래도 리딩보단 리스닝 자료를 더 많이 언급하는게 도움이 될 것 같아서요..