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TPO 15 - Question 3
University Should Pave Running Trails
The university has about three miles of unpaved dirt running trails that pass through the forest near campus. I think these trails should be paved with cement. One reason for paving the trails would be to increase their safety. When it rains, the dirt turns to mud and becomes very slippery, so the runners who use them can slip and fall. Pavement would solve this problem. Also, paving would make the trails look nicer, which would encourage students to use them. Bumps in the trail would be smoothed out and weeds would be paved over, making the trail more attractive to runners.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-08-27 | mgrajapt | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2020-01-08 | Christine hanna | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-06-26 | ying.ma | 76.67 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-04-26 | toeflibt.ara | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-12-08 | mgrajapt | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
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- Some people believe that television has had a positive influence on society. Others believe it has had a negative influence on society. Which do you agree with and why? Use details and examples to explain your opinion. 66
- agree or disagree.. using a phone call is better than sending email for communication 66
- When looking for information for a research project, some students prefer to get their information mainly from the Internet. Others prefer to mainly use printed materials such as books and academic journals. Which do you prefer, and why? 66
- TPO 40 task 3 70
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 779.0 593.389002037 131% => OK
No of words: 193.0 154.784114053 125% => OK
Chars per words: 4.03626943005 3.82920900774 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.72725689877 3.52088357496 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.92978577295 1.81998168104 106% => OK
Unique words: 124.0 93.7942973523 132% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.642487046632 0.608046397892 106% => OK
Syllable count: 240.3 185.724439919 129% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.190975463553 0.0833886788687 229% => Good job. The more, the better.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.90020366599 26% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 193.0 71.3690273242 270% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 24.1299301424 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 60.04 26.8388033085 224% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 8.89323425527 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 31.0 40.266802444 77% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.22580645161 4.20756893501 148% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.49163866512 3.23972648638 139% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.88967741935 1.51236819293 125% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.27569711207 1.0352206224 123% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 35.0 37.9022403259 92% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.94 7.22384928717 82% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.169714285714 0.193825474362 88% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.142517882874 0.16431695912 87% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 51.12 46.6644602851 110% => OK
Average word duration: 0.264870466321 0.304040633073 87% => OK
STD word duration: 0.163944603333 0.193491353168 85% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 8.88594704684 68% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.92 6.97134419552 71% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.69 3.21433808554 21% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.04 59.1375356415 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.00066666667 0.985625594026 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.582944703531 0.643888735843 91% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.2145236509 2.61565628039 123% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.0652898068 1.58604529434 130% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.42566510172 2.01333574461 120% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.384100699482 0.322651457988 119% => OK
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.