The article states that scientists have been proposed several possible causes for occurring the Little Ice Age and provides three possible cause. However, the professor explains that the information is out of date and with new information, none of these are correct.
First, the reading argues that it may have been caused by disrupting of ocean currents which are related to changing weather before Little Ice Age. Nevertheless, the professor refutes that cooling occurred only in some part of the northern hemisphere and it can not explain the cooling occurred in the southern hemisphere so it can not be a cause of the Little Ice Age.
Second, the article claims that volcanic eruption could have caused the Little Ice Age because it sends dark clouds fo dust and sulfur gas into the atmosphere and blocks sunlight from reaching the earth's surface. The professor contends that if there were enough dust, It would able to cause that situation but evidence shows that it was not so strong to be the cause of the Little Ice Age.
Third, the reading avers that substantial decreases in human populations and growing more trees may have contributed indirectly to the cooling of the climate. the lecture opposes this point by saying that there was not enough time to occur that conditions because the population grows back to normal in little time and forest cut down again.
- Some people say that the Internet provides people with a lot of valuable information. Others think access to so much information creates problems. Which view do you agree with? Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion. 66
- TOEFL T P O 15 - Integrated Writing Task 3
- Because the world is changing so quickly, people now are less happy or less satisfied with their lives than people were in the past. 66
- In 1938 an archaeologist in Iraq acquired a set of clay jars that had been excavated two years earlier by villagers constructing a railroad line. The vessel was about 2,200 years old. Each clay jay contained a copper cylinder surrounding an iron rod. The 3
- Like many creatures, humpback whales migrate long distances for feeding and mating purposes. How animals manage to migrate long distances is often puzzling. In the case of humpback whales, we may have found the answer: they may be navigating by the stars, 71
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 160, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: The
...directly to the cooling of the climate. the lecture opposes this point by saying th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, nevertheless, second, so, third
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 24.0 30.3222958057 79% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1150.0 1373.03311258 84% => OK
No of words: 231.0 270.72406181 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.97835497835 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89854898053 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4598498157 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 133.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.575757575758 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 357.3 419.366225166 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 13.0662251656 61% => 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: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 32.2933332903 49.2860985944 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 143.75 110.228320801 130% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.875 21.698381199 133% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.625 7.06452816374 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.527841196073 0.272083759551 194% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.222690681008 0.0996497079465 223% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.111886115808 0.0662205650399 169% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.298003005318 0.162205337803 184% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0799348151285 0.0443174109184 180% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 13.3589403974 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 53.8541721854 96% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.2 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.51 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 63.6247240618 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => 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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