According to the reading passage, it is stated that the salinity level of the Salton Sea in California is increasing continually due to its faster rate of water evaporation compared to the amount of water that comes from rainfall or rivers. Hence, it provides some solutions to deal with this problem. However, the professor in the listening states why the ideas presented in the reading passage were not practical and refutes them by describing three reasons as follows.
Firstly, the reading claims that the high amount of salt can be removed directly from lake's water by using some special desalination facilities. The professor casts doubt on this point by saying that although this approach eliminates water's salt, it causes some serious problems to the human health. He states that when water evaporates, besides salt it leaves out some solid material. These materials may be some other types of chemicals, which can be combined with other elemnts like air and create some dangerous problems for humans breathing the air.
Secondly, the article posits that another solution is diluting the salt level by adding some ocean water. In contrast, the professor says that this process requires constructing some pipelines and canals, which would be very expensive; because the distance between the lake and Pacific Ocean is nearly ine hundred kilometers.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, first, firstly, hence, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1141.0 1373.03311258 83% => OK
No of words: 218.0 270.72406181 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23394495413 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.84250218741 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54474725153 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 140.0 145.348785872 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.642201834862 0.540411800872 119% => OK
syllable_count: 354.6 419.366225166 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => 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: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.7215298506 49.2860985944 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.777777778 110.228320801 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.2222222222 21.698381199 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.22222222222 7.06452816374 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.339475734915 0.272083759551 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.133931316738 0.0996497079465 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0931723773041 0.0662205650399 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.225101667595 0.162205337803 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0691776610506 0.0443174109184 156% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 13.3589403974 115% => 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: 13.35 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.19 8.42419426049 121% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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