Question:
Summarize the points in the lecture you just heard explaining how they serve as examples of the points made in the text.
Sample Response:
The lecture takes up the behavior of blessing someone who has sneezed as an example of superstition, showing how deep-rooted in our minds this particular superstition is and mentioning some explanations for it
The professor describes how difficult it is to resist saying, “Bless you.” He tells what happened when he tried not to say it. He says that he felt as if he was being accused of not saying it, and in the end he said it despite himself. This is an example of a point in the text: the power of superstitions that makes even highly educated people believe and observe them.
The professor shows some explanations of this practice. The usual explanation is the old belief that one’s soul could pop out of the body with the sneeze. More likely explanation is that, in the old days, sneezing would often the precursor of a fatal disease, so the sneezer actually needed blessing. However, this explanation fails in that coughing does not have the same kind of superstition. For this, the professor says that since superstitions are irrational in nature, it is natural that explanations for them do not add up. The text explains the psychological mechanism of our belief in superstition. According to the text, superstitions help people overcome fears by providing security against what they cannot control. Although the professor does not relate the two, the topic of his lecture, the behavior of blessing a sneezer, represents this psychological mechanism because, as he explained, people used to attempt to fend off illness and death by blessing someone.
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この解答例の構成:
第1段落: くしゃみをした人に神の加護を祈願する迷信に関するLectureの要旨
第2段落: Lectureのひとつめの要点とTextのどの要点の例になっているかの説明
（例になっている要点： 不合理と分かっていても信じないではいられなくさせる迷信の力）
第3段落: Lectureのふたつめの要点とTextのどの要点の例になっているかの説明
(例になっている要点： 不安を克服させる迷信の機能)
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