In recent years, many frog species around the world have declined in numbers or even gone extinct due to changes in their environment. These population declines and extinctions have serious consequences for the ecosystems in which frogs live; for example, frogs help play a role in protecting humans by eating disease-carrying insects. Several methods have been proposed to solve the problem of declining frog populations.
First, frogs are being harmed by pesticides, which are chemicals used to prevent insects from damaging farm crops such as corn and sugarcane. Pesticides often spread from farmland into neighboring frog habitats. Once pesticides enter a frog’s body, they attack the nervous system, leading to severe breathing problems. If laws prohibited the farmers from using harmful pesticides near sensitive frog populations, it would significantly reduce the harm pesticides cause to frogs.
A second major factor in frog population decline is a fungus that has spread around the world with deadly effect. The fungus causes thickening of the skin, and since frogs use their skin to absorb water, infected frogs die of dehydration. Recently, researchers have discovered several ways to treat or prevent infection, including antifungal medication and treatments that kill the fungus with heat. Those treatments, if applied on a large scale, would protect sensitive frog populations from infection.
Third, in a great many cases, frog populations are in decline simply because their natural habitats are threatened. Since most frog species lay their eggs in water, they are dependent on water and wetland habitats. Many such habitats are threatened by human activities, including excessive water use or the draining of wetlands to make them suitable for development. If key water habitats such as lakes and marshes were better protected from excessive water use and development, many frog species would recover.
The reading passage and the lecture are mainly about the decline of frog populations. The author offers several solutions to solve the problem; however, the woman in the conversation does not think it will be work.
The author indicates that frogs would be less affected by pesticide which leads to breathing problems if we can prohibit the farmers from using harmful pesticide. On the contrary, the woman points out since farmers need to use pesticide to produce more crop and get more money. If they do so, people who are not allowed to use pesticide would be a disadvantage and it would not good for the economy.
The reading passage suggests that we could protect frog populations from infection if we use antifungal medication and treatments because the fungus could cause frog cannot absorb water and then die. Nevertheless, the woman in the lecture argues that since the treatment need to use in individual frog and they usually hard to capture every frog as well as they need to do this again and again, that would be expensive, so it is unlikely to do it.
The author claims that many frog species would be recover if we protect water habitats from excessive water use because excessive water could threaten frog habitats. On the other hand, she presents that human activities are not the major problem, just because the global warming, that causes too many waters and then causing some animals extinct.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, nevertheless, so, then, well, as well as, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 5.04856512141 277% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1183.0 1373.03311258 86% => OK
No of words: 241.0 270.72406181 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.90871369295 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94007293032 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45678196446 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.55601659751 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 370.8 419.366225166 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 46.7095041483 49.2860985944 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.444444444 110.228320801 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.7777777778 21.698381199 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.88888888889 7.06452816374 140% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.124951952844 0.272083759551 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0547280693276 0.0996497079465 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0379357824272 0.0662205650399 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0759519580133 0.162205337803 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0177310217325 0.0443174109184 40% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 13.3589403974 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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