Some people prefer to learn about current events from watching television news programs Others prefer to read about current events in newspapers or on the internet Which do you think is better watching the news or reading the news Explain why

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Some people prefer to learn about current events from watching television news programs . Others prefer to read about current events in newspapers or on the internet ,Which do you think is better : watching the news or reading the news? Explain why.

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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 563.0 444.711560045 127% => OK
No of words: 140.0 116.580246914 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.02142857143 3.81502700369 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.43979062825 3.28032121604 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.12625713115 1.8723322822 114% => OK
Unique words: 91.0 76.076318743 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.65 0.655143326166 99% => OK
Syllable count: 173.7 141.574747475 123% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0494382609178 0.0738818816272 67% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 140.0 60.3232687746 232% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 44.89 22.9064221017 196% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 19.0 31.1548821549 61% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 7.36842105263 4.0588447711 182% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.12178552661 3.18357895611 161% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.32578947368 1.46810986539 158% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.46197168879 1.01537252472 144% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 19.0 28.6644219978 66% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.27 5.28593714927 62% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.172105263158 0.187982170178 92% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.151086554049 0.154715141812 98% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 39.18 35.408047138 111% => OK
Average word duration: 0.279857142857 0.306236595465 91% => OK
STD word duration: 0.141940559563 0.198589292138 71% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 3.0 6.3164983165 47% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.29 5.14435465769 45% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.83 2.80480359147 30% => Good job. The lower, the better.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 44.89 45.0716498316 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.997555555556 1.00159221848 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.423256850078 0.637764685501 66% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.11873468479 2.58495923209 121% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.02717754511 1.68816559523 120% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.32261357836 2.15290372801 108% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.380146964286 0.343871460585 111% => 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.

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for the second reason, if we give 'English skills' as the reason, then we will need to explain why 'English skills'. for example, I have to pass an English exam, so 'English skills'...

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We may give other reasons which are more general like: we have to watch watching TV at home, while newspaper/phone/Inernet is available everywhere like in the bus, office, mall...