ST_015
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综合写作ST 015音频
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综合写作
In 1889 an archaeologist named Cresson presented to the public what appeared to be an ancient Native American carving of a woolly mammoth on a fragment of shell. Its two small holes suggested that it was worn as a pendant around the neck. While some experts suspect the object might be a forgery（a fake），others believe that it is genuine and proves that ancient Native Americans once lived alongside woolly mammoths. The experts who believe that the pendant was truly created by ancient Native Americans use the following arguments.
First，the carving on the pendant is similar to other ancient carvings of mammoths. The stylistic similarity to other ancient carvings supports the pendant’s ancient origin.
Second，Cresson claimed to have found the pendant alongside a number of genuine old items produced by Native Americans. These items included stone tools and arrowheads. If the pendant was discovered alongside genuine old items，it is likely that the carving itself is genuine as well.
Third, the pendant has uniform weathering Weathering is the damage to all old objects caused by long exposure to water, soil chemicals, and other environmental factors. If someone created the pendant as a modern forgery by carving an image of a mammoth on a piece of old shell. the carving would show little weathering, while the rest of the shell surface would be highly weathered. But that is not the case-the carving and the rest of the shell as a whole show the same degree of weathering, which suggests that both the carving and the shell date to the same, ancient time period
Question:
Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they respond to the specific concerns expressed in the reading passage.
学术写作：
Your professor is teaching a class on education. Write a post responding to the professor’s question.
In your response, you should do the following.
●Express and support your opinion.
●Make a contribution to the discussion in your own words.
An effective response will contain at least 100 words.
Professor：
Some educators think that in our global, tech-oriented world, students need to focus on nonfiction texts, such as news stories, technical manuals, or other informational materials. They say that reading poetry, novels, and short stories is not the optimal use of the limited time that students have in the classroom. How do you view this approach to education? Should schools limit the teaching of fictional texts in favor of teaching more practical, nonfiction texts?
Education has to evolve. Nowadays, there’s an enormous amount of economic and political data freely available online. It’s important that students can evaluate this information to understand local and world events in order to be good citizens. Reading fiction is a wonderful hobby, but school should prepare students for adult life and its responsibilities.
I spent a lot of class time in high school analyzing literature. I’m studying to be an engineer, so I admit that reading fiction in school was not directly applicable to my future occupation, but it did instill in me a love of reading, which is very valuable. I feel better equipped now to understand all sorts of written material.
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