Broccoli is a vegetable that is popular throughout the United States, but it can be grown only in temperate climates with mild summers. Because of this limitation, 90 percent of the broccoli consumed in the United States is grown in the cooler regions of California, on the West Coast. lt must be shipped 4, 000 kilometers across the entire country to reach the populous East Coast.
This situation may soon change, however: scientists are attempting to create a new type of broccoli that can be grown on the East Coast despite the hotter summers there. This project has several potential benefits.
First, growing broccoli on the East Coast and distributing it to nearby grocery stores would lower broccoli costs for consumers Transporting the vegetable from California by truck takes several days, which makes transportation costs high. Growing broccoli locally would reduce transportation costs, so stores could sell broccoli for less money.
Second, the new type of broccoli will probably be much more desirable to consumers than some other new crops. The new broccoli is being created using traditional breeding techniques: researchers are crossbreeding broccoli with other similar plants that have desirable characteristics, such as resistance to hot summers. Other new crops - varieties of squash or maize, for example - were created using genetic modification technology. Genetically modified crops are very controversial: many consumers believe they are unsafe and so reject them. However, the new broccoli will not be in that category.
Third, vegetables are healthiest to eat right after they are harvested because they retain most of their beneficial nutrients and vitamins. The longer it takes for a vegetable like broccoli to reach consumers, the fewer nutrients and vitamins it contains. Broccoli that is grown locally can be eaten much sooner after it is cut, which will make this new broccoli healthier for East Coast residents than California broccoli.
According to the reading passage, a new type of broccoli is developed to grow on the East Coast in spite of its hot summer weather. The professor in the listening disregards each of the benefits mentioned in the reading and points out the problems of each point.
First of all, the reading suggests that the price of broccoli on the East Coast will be reduced in this way thanks to lower transportation costs. However, the lecturer argues that, at the same time, planting broccoli on the East Coast produces lower yields. Since there is less broccoli grown per hector, the price will certainly increase, so the consumers may not save their money eventually.
Secondly, the author of the reading states that this new kind of broccoli maybe more welcomed by customers, because unlike other new crops, it does not use genetic modification which remains controversial. In contrast, the professor rebuts that consumers will still be suspicious about this new product in that the technology comes from the same company which applies genetic modification on many of their products. Therefore, people are not willing to trust this company, along with its products including the new type of broccoli.
Finally, while the article contends that people in the East Coast can eat the healthiest broccoli if is grown there locally. As opposed to this view, the professor maintains that other vegetables containing the same nutrients and vitamins as broccoli are available locally there. For example, kale provides almost the same nutritional benefit as broccoli in the East Coast and is even better, for it grows in fall and winter apart from summer. The professor further claims that scientists should, instead, teach local people how to obtain vegetables already available locally.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, therefore, while, apart from, for example, in contrast, kind of, first of all, in spite of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1489.0 1373.03311258 108% => OK
No of words: 288.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.17013888889 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11953428781 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60722736803 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5625 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 449.1 419.366225166 107% => 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: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.5644810196 49.2860985944 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.083333333 110.228320801 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0 21.698381199 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 13.1666666667 7.06452816374 186% => 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: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.20066205864 0.272083759551 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.074537407381 0.0996497079465 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0380515786037 0.0662205650399 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111369813679 0.162205337803 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.037538252154 0.0443174109184 85% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 53.8541721854 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.0289183223 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.66 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, therefore, while, apart from, for example, in contrast, kind of, first of all, in spite of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1489.0 1373.03311258 108% => OK
No of words: 288.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.17013888889 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11953428781 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60722736803 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5625 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 449.1 419.366225166 107% => 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: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.5644810196 49.2860985944 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.083333333 110.228320801 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0 21.698381199 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 13.1666666667 7.06452816374 186% => 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: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.20066205864 0.272083759551 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.074537407381 0.0996497079465 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0380515786037 0.0662205650399 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111369813679 0.162205337803 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.037538252154 0.0443174109184 85% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 53.8541721854 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.0289183223 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.66 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.