According to the reading passage, it is stated that sending people to an asteroid for establishing a colony will be more beneficial than doing the same thing in Moon or Mars, and it provides some reasons regarding this idea. However, the professor in the listening states why the assumptions mentioned in the reading passage were not correct and refutes them by describing three reasons as follows.
Firstly, the reading claims that asteroids are smaller than other planets due to the low gravity they have, which benefits the colonization idea by making the landing of spaceship easy, allowing spacecrafts to carry more equipment, and also decreasing the need of carrying much fuel for the trip. The professor casts doubt on this point by saying that while lower gravity facilitates the landing of spaceship, it has a lot of risks to the human body in the long run. He states it may raise the hazard of losing muscle mass or bone density declining. Hence, an environment with a lower gravity would be hazardous rather than lucrative.
Secondly, the article posits that colonists or businesses sponsoring them can enrich themselves by mining and returning the precious elements like gold or platinum, which exist in high volumes on asteroids, to the Earth. In contrast, the professor says that costs of supporting a colony and transporting material is so high that it can't be as profitable as it is supposed. On the other hand, according to the professor, there is no guarantee for the profit of selling those materials; they may lose their value or be not sold at the right price.
Finally, the reading says that asteroids periodically come within or near Earth's orbit, which makes them more easy and affordable to reach. The professor opposes this point by saying that returning from those asteroids would not be as easy as attaining them. He goes on to say that some orbital pads come occasionally approach the Earth and then get away. Therefore, since an asteroid won't stay close to Earth, coming back of them would be a challenge.
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...d be hazardous rather than lucrative. Secondly, the article posits that coloni...
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...lue or be not sold at the right price. Finally, the reading says that asteroids...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, firstly, hence, however, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, while, in contrast, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => 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: 1697.0 1373.03311258 124% => OK
No of words: 344.0 270.72406181 127% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93313953488 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30665032142 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65244862484 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 145.348785872 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.581395348837 0.540411800872 108% => OK
syllable_count: 519.3 419.366225166 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 61.1725660753 49.2860985944 124% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.538461538 110.228320801 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.4615384615 21.698381199 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.6923076923 7.06452816374 151% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0819470799792 0.272083759551 30% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0289727395569 0.0996497079465 29% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0336093301121 0.0662205650399 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0509795381799 0.162205337803 31% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0282271114116 0.0443174109184 64% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.61 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.1 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 63.6247240618 143% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 10.7273730684 168% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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