新托福综合写作：2012年12月01日北美真题再现

新托福综合写作：2012年12月01日北美真题再现
Task 1：Writing Based on Reading and Listening
Directions: You should allow 3 minutes to read the passage. Then listen to the lecture. Then allow 20 minutes to plan and write your response.

Passage
The archaeological site located in the north-east of England, discovered in 1939, is considered by many to be the grave of King Raedwald. Raedwald was a prominent king of the East Anglia, one of several Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in Great Britain in the post-Roman centuries before the Norman Conquest. A number of considerations support this deduction.

A pair of spoons found in the luxurious grave can be reliably dated to A.D. 620 by modern technology. Since Raedwald is generally thought to have died in A.D. 624, the likelihood is high that the spoons and the grave are all his. East Anglia, moreover, was a fairly small kingdom, so there could not have been a great many important persons all dying at the same time.

Second, the spoons were engraved with the names Augustine and Paulinus. Both of these figures were well-known Roman Catholic missionaries at the time. This makes the inference likely that the spoons were a baptismal gift. This is highly significant because Raedwald is known to have converted to Catholicism at the behest of Augustine around A.D. 597. It should be remembered too that at this time Catholic kings or noblemen were a distinct minority in Britain. Therefore, we can safely conclude that the grave occupant is King Raedwald.

Last, the grave is very luxurious. Anglo-Saxon England was a poor country with a low standard of living. Clearly the occupant of the grave lived at the very pinnacle of his society. This, taken together with the other evidence, argues compellingly that the grave is King Raedwald’s.

Listen
Narrator: Now listen to part of a lecture on the topic you just read about.（听力原文见解答篇）

Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard, explaining how they cast doubt on points made in the reading passage.
You must finish your answer in 20 minutes. 

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