The reading passage:
Although the sale of rhinoceros horns is illegal worldwide, rhinoceroses (Rhinos) are commonly poached (hunted illegally) for their horns, which can be sold for tens of thousands of dollars per kilogram. Rhino horns are so valuable that one type of rhino is already extinct because poachers killed too many of them. All rhinos may soon become extinct unless something is done to help save them. Several ideas have been suggested
The first idea is for wildlife experts to “dehorn" Rhinos living in the wild. Dehorning means removing the horns of living rhinos to make them less attractive to poachers Horns can be removed without hurting the animals if medical equipment and drugs to calm the animals are used When this strategy was tried on a small scale in the early 1990s; none of the rhinos dehorned at the time were killed by poachers.
The second possibility is to educate consumers. The majority of rhino horn sold is used in medicines Although rhino horn is believed to have health benefits, this belief has no scientific foundation Rhino horn consists almost entirely of keratin, the same material found in human hair and nails. Keratin has no known health value. Educating consumers about keratin could greatly decrease the demand for rhino horn
The third possibility is to legalize government sales of rhino horn. Some governments have large amounts of horn, taken from poachers they have arrested This horn is often kept in storage. However, if government sales were legal, large quantities of horn that governments already have could be sold at very low prices Poachers kill rhinos because consumers pay high prices for their horns If governments started selling cheap rhino horn, rhino poaching would no longer be profitable and would probably stop, at least for a while. That might help endangered rhino populations to recover.
There has been a debate about possible ways to stop hunting Rhinos for their horns and prevent their extinction. The text proposes several solutions, however, the professor in the listening refutes them all by some contrary opinions.
First of all, the passage claims that one possible solution can be dehorn the Rhinos, while the professor expresses that this idea is not practical and is not proper for the survival of Rhinos because also it takes a lot of time and money to prepare all the Rhinos for surgery, it may reduce the chance of survival of them, since Rhinos use their horn to digging water to find food and protect their young and territory.
Secondly, the reading proposes that educating consumers can be a good theory. However, the lecturer indicates that educating is not effective in this case since the beliefs about the magical effects of these horns are based on strong cultural ancient convictions that can not easily change.
Third, while the passage states the idea of legalization of selling these horns by the government, the woman discusses that this can make unpredictable situations because now, the number of customers is limited since the people think it is illegal to buy the horns. But by legitimating it, the demand for them will dramatically increase. So it attracts poaches to kill them more.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, may, second, secondly, so, third, while, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1109.0 1373.03311258 81% => OK
No of words: 223.0 270.72406181 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.9730941704 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.86434787811 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54233593735 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 132.0 145.348785872 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.591928251121 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 349.2 419.366225166 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => 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: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 119.385667063 49.2860985944 242% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 138.625 110.228320801 126% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.875 21.698381199 128% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0 7.06452816374 142% => 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 : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.295861561294 0.272083759551 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.108794739877 0.0996497079465 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0808203914897 0.0662205650399 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.162774206071 0.162205337803 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0466067169323 0.0443174109184 105% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 13.3589403974 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 53.8541721854 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.0289183223 125% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.01 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 63.6247240618 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.0 10.7273730684 158% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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