■ 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 : The lecturer aregues that a predation hypothesis is more likely than a pollution hypothesis when explaining the cause of the decline of the sea otter population declined sea otter's population. This casts doubt on the reading passage's supposition that the pollution can be a reason why the number of sea otters were decreased.
Fisrst (철자 지켜주세요!), the lecturer contends that the pollution theory is weak because there was no one who found dead sea otters. Besides, this fact the fact that there are no dead sea otters is consisted with the hypothesis that predators could have caused the phenomena of diminishing number of sea otters. This contrasts the reading passage's claim that oil rings and increased chemicals in the water sample is one of the reasons that why the sea otters were died out.
Second, the lecturer claims that the decreasing number of other sea mammals along the Alaskan coast is because of the human hunters. Humans break the balance of sea mammals by hunting a variety of sea mammals. This goes against the reading passage's claim that the decreased nember of sea otters caused the population of the other sea mammals population to decline as well.
Lastly, the lecturer says that the uneven pattern of sea otter's distribution is because the orca, their predator the predator of them, the orca, can only access to certain areas. To be specific, the orcas can only swin (여기도 철자 오류가 있습니다.) in deep water since it has a large body. Thus, it can only consume sea otters in deep oceans where they can swim. This casts doubt on the reading passage's claim that the irregular distribution pattern is the reason why the pollution may cause the decline of the sea otters. |
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총평: 어떤 특정 부분에서 큰 문제는 없었기에 비교적 고득점이 기대되는 글이었습니다. 단, 종종 철자 오류가 보이기도 하고, 관사에 관련해서 문제가 있었습니다. 후자의 경우 한국어에는 없는 사항이므로 어려워하실 수도 있는데, 나중에 이와 관련해서 잘 정리가 되어있는 영어 블로그 등을 한번 참고해보시는 것도 좋을 것 같아요. 그리고 다른 부분에서는 적절히 동의어를 활용해주셨는데, lecturer 와 reading passage 는 그렇지 못하셨습니다. 여기도 speaker 등으로 바꿔가면서 쓰면 더 좋은 효과를 얻을 수 있어요. 수고하셨습니다 :)