A TOEFL test composition. The reading passage and the professor’s lecture analyze the disappearance of the Anasazi. However the lecture thinks that the Anasazi died out because they were lack of water, which is opposite to the views of reading. According to the reading, the war is the main reason of the Anasazi’s extinction. First off, the author believes the evident that there are a mount of places were burned proves that invasions actually happened. While the lecture argues that it is the Anasazi who burn their own house to pray for raining form the God. It is a celebration but not an invasion. While the reading mentions that the Anasazi left their belongings behind to survive when the war sudden happened, the lecture claims that the Anasazi is thirsting for water so that they do not need for extra personal belongings. Therefore, they left them is their settlement when they departed in search of new homes. In contrast to the reading, which claims that it was other tribes, coveting the rich land, made war upon the Anasazi and Drove them out, the lecturer states that with the rainy day appearing less frequently, few water supplies remained simply could not satisfy the Anasazi’s large population, so they gradually disappeared.