TOEFL Integrated Writing, Sample Answer 2 -partly rewritten-

Question:

Summarize the views expressed by the processor in his/her lecture, and compare them with the points made in the text.

Sample Response:

The professor is skeptical about the global warming theory and thinks that humankind can deal with whatever may happen in contrast to the text which argues that global warming is self-evident now and that we should take measures immediately to cope with its negative effects.

The text claims the causal connection between the global warming and CO2 emissions from human activities by giving some circumstantial evidences: acute temperature rise, changes in spring arrival times, and increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations. It gives some examples of predicted effects of global warming: rising sea level, the sea current change, deforestation, and outbreaks of malaria, warning that we should prioritize this issue as the imminent threat to life on earth.

The professor makes three points to dismiss the global warming, human involvement in it, and its threat. According to him, the temperature rise observed so far is not an anomaly in the geologic time scale, and he points out the possibility that not human activities but other factors beyond human understanding are involved in the temperature rise. He also says that humans have experienced major climate changes and have survived. He argues that we still have time to see if the theory is true and, even if it is, keeping carbon dioxide in the air at a certain concentration rate is enough to avoid the disastrous results although the rise will continue over the next fifty years while we aim to stop it in the latter half of this century. He expects that the development of technology will help solve the problem.

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この解答例の構成

第1段落　           LectureとTextの違い

第2段落　           Textの要約

第3段落　           Lectureの要約