Bears, TOEFL INTEGRATED
The reading passage and the lecture are both about bears and their characteristics. While the author of the passage argues about how bears are aggressive and attack humans, the lecturer on the other hand is against the author’s position. The lecturer holds different views compared to the author.
According to the reading passage, the writer mentions how when bears lose their fear of people, they tend to become more aggressive and attack humans. The lecturer opposes this claim by saying that bears that are fed by people are less likely to attack humans. He presents two examples to support his view. First, he says that in a town in Minnesota, the wild black bears are handfed for quite some time and no one was attacked since the bears lost their fear of humans. He also goes on to say that a doctor surveyed a seven square mile region consisting of 7000 humans with 21 bears, which was an unusually high bear density ratio when compared to national parks and forests, and still there were no incidents despite the human's hand-feeding bears.
Secondly, the author says that bears are naturally aggressive and when they stand on their hind legs, huff, growl, and slap the ground, these are sure indicators that the bear will attack. The lecturer on the other hand says that this claim is incorrect as when a bear tends to stand on his/her hind legs, it could just mean that the bear needs a better view by being elevated in height. When they huff and growl, they tend to show dominance to scare away humans and not attack them.
Finally, the author mentions three techniques to avoid getting killed by a bear. These include running as fast as you can when a bear charges at you, climbing up a tree when you find one and the best defense according to the author is to shoot the bear with a gun. The lecturer was not impressed by these techniques and goes on to say that these are misconceptions. When we encounter a bear in the wild, he says, we should not run but in fact, look into its eyes and talk to the bear by raising our hands above our head to show that we look bigger than the bear. If the bear charges at you, we should fall to the floor in a fetal position and cover our neck with our hands. Climbing a tree is not a very good solution as grizzly bears have large claws by which they can follow a person up a tree. Lastly, instead of shooting a bear and killing it, we can use a non-lethal bear spray which is extremely effective and non-toxic as well.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, if, lastly, look, second, secondly, so, still, well, while, in fact, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 7.30242825607 246% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 21.0 12.0772626932 174% => OK
Pronoun: 49.0 22.412803532 219% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 55.0 30.3222958057 181% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2024.0 1373.03311258 147% => OK
No of words: 452.0 270.72406181 167% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.47787610619 5.08290768461 88% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61088837703 4.04702891845 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.27640999087 2.5805825403 88% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 145.348785872 154% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.495575221239 0.540411800872 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 598.5 419.366225166 143% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.55342163355 84% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 3.25607064018 369% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.1040851709 49.2860985944 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.444444444 110.228320801 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.1111111111 21.698381199 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.27777777778 7.06452816374 89% => 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 : 11.0 4.45695364238 247% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.21900043889 0.272083759551 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0816089847624 0.0996497079465 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0509344942136 0.0662205650399 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.139360957298 0.162205337803 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0368364142921 0.0443174109184 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 71.48 53.8541721854 133% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.0 12.2367328918 74% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.25 8.42419426049 86% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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