Mock Test 03
The reading and listening materials have a debate on what the short-faced bear whose body size was massive ate to survive. The writer comes up with three theories, which are contradicted by the following lecture.
Firstly, the writer claims that the bear might eat giant mammals such as buffalo and mammoths. However, the speaker casts doubt on it by saying that the short-faced bears were not able to attack the giant mammals. The skeleton of short-faced bear shows that it had unusually thin bones, which means its front legs and paws were too weak to pull the mammals down.
Secondly, the author argues that fast-running animals could be a food of the bear due to its ability to run at high-speed, while the lecture views this issue from an opposite angle. According to the professor, instead of running in straight line, the animals like deer often took a sharp turn to change the direction. Thus, it was difficult for the short-faced bear to chase them up since it was too heavy to make a sharp turn without slowing down.
Thirdly, the passage states that the bear was a scavenger that fed on animals already killed by other predators. By contrast, in accordance with the professor, this claim does not hold water. It is because a scavenger usually eats hard bones that partly eaten by other animals, consequently leaving distinct marks on its teeth when chewing bones. However, there are no such kind of marks on short-faced bear’s teeth, which indicates that the short-faced bear was not a scavenger.
To sum up, the professor totally refutes the author’s statements, and more conceivable theories are needed to point out the food resources of short-faced bear.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 64, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[1]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'food'.
Suggestion: food
...gues that fast-running animals could be a food of the bear due to its ability to run a...
^^^^^^
Line 7, column 375, Rule ID: THERE_RE_MANY[3]
Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'kinds'?
Suggestion: kinds
...ewing bones. However, there are no such kind of marks on short-faced bear's tee...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, thus, while, as to, kind of, such as, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 9.8082437276 20% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 13.8261648746 29% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.0286738351 118% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 43.0788530466 44% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 52.1666666667 81% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.0752688172 25% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1408.0 1977.66487455 71% => OK
No of words: 283.0 407.700716846 69% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.97526501767 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10153676581 4.48103885553 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64049113515 2.67179642975 99% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 212.727598566 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.60777385159 0.524837075471 116% => OK
syllable_count: 412.2 618.680645161 67% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 9.59856630824 31% => OK
Article: 9.0 3.08781362007 291% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 20.6003584229 63% => 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: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 28.9345312834 48.9658058833 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 108.307692308 100.406767564 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7692307692 20.6045352989 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.84615384615 5.45110844103 181% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 11.8709677419 17% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.85842293907 181% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0 0.236089414692 0% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0 0.076458572812 0% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0737576698707 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0 0.150856017488 0% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0645574589148 0% => 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: 12.9 11.7677419355 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 58.1214874552 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 10.9000537634 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.03 8.01818996416 100% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 86.8835125448 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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