This material addresses the question of the necessity to extinguish forest fires when they occur. The reading passage suggests that the so-called ''let it burn'' policy should be revised as it has proved to be unpredictable /or irrational/. The lecturer, on the other hand, refutes this information by stating that fire has also creative role.
To begin with, the reading passage highlights that fires that took place in Yellowstone park in 1988 seriously damaged its trees and other plants since about one third of the territory of the park had been burnt out. Meanwhile, the professor casts doubt on this and argues that vegetation recovered fast enough. Moreover, a more diverse ecosystem emerged in the park inasmuch the plants that had been deprived of the possibility to grow got that chance in the new environment caused by the fires.
Additionally, the article posits that animals suffered significantly from the fires, as well. Some of them were killed, some others were able to survive but were not able to return since the food chains were disrupted. However, the professor advocates a different approach and provides the following details. Namely, she mentions that wildlife also recovered, and new animal species such as rabbits and hares got an opportunity to develop. As to the food chains, they became more diversed, too.
Finally, the author invites attention to the fact that tourists left the region after the fires - a fact which influenced the local business, as well. This goes counter to the information in the listening passage, according to which, the tourist came back to the park the next year, so they were doing the other years since the fires like the one took place /occurred/ in 1988 have never repeated in Yellowstone.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, moreover, so, third, well, while, as to, such as, to begin with, 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: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1461.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 289.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0553633218 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12310562562 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6109278263 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 145.348785872 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.598615916955 0.540411800872 111% => OK
syllable_count: 454.5 419.366225166 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.3536238077 49.2860985944 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.384615385 110.228320801 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2307692308 21.698381199 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.84615384615 7.06452816374 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.340517916419 0.272083759551 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0907932905352 0.0996497079465 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0664844294865 0.0662205650399 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.175847973819 0.162205337803 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0374841739468 0.0443174109184 85% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.3589403974 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.15 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 63.6247240618 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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