2020年4月9日托福写作机经
Sample answer：
The reading and listening discuss aboutstrategies to stop the vanishing of gopher tortoises. The reading passage mentionsthree ways to stop the disappearing of gopher tortoises. Whereas, the professortotally refutes the three points presented in the passage.
Firstly, the professor rebuts the reading's idea that bypreserving habitats of palm forests, gopher tortoises can have more food supplies.The professor claims that fires frequently happen in their habitats, thus causinga lot of trees and grass cleaned out. As a result, the tortoises do not have enoughgrass to eat.
Secondly, the professor contradicts reading's secondmethod of raising the gopher tortoises in research center and then releasingthem. The professor mentions that this way can bring terrible consequences. Thegopher tortoises might suffer certain disease that can only be treated in theresearch center, and also cause negative effect to wild tortoises.
At last, the passage states that people can protectthem by migrating gopher tortoises to areas suitable but without othertortoises. However, the professor explains that
tortoises havehoming instinct that leads them to return to original habitats. In other cases,gopher tortoises will
return if they cannot get the places chosen for them. Intheir
way back, they may come across dangers like busy roads and even bekilled.
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