The Salton Sea in California is actually a salty inland lake. The level of salt in the lake's water-what scientists call its salinity-has been increasing steadily for years because the lake's water is evaporating faster than it is being replaced by rainfall or rivers. If the trend continues, the lake's water will soon become so salty that the lake will be unable to support fish and bird populations. The lake would then become essentially a dead zone. Fortunately, there are several ways to reverse the trend that is threatening the lake's health.
One option is direct removal of salt from the lake's water in special desalination facilities. Water from the lake would be pumped into the facilities and heated. This would cause the water to evaporate into steam, while salt and other materials dissolved in the water would be left behind. The steam would then be cooled down and returned to the lake as salt-free water. Gradually, the high salt levels would be reduced and the lake's overall health would be restored.
Another possible solution is to dilute the salt level in the lake with water from the ocean. Since water in the Pacific Ocean is 20 percent less salty than water in the lake, bringing ocean water into the lake would decrease the lake's salinity. The ocean water could be delivered through pipelines or canals.
Yet another solution would be to control the lake's salinity by constructing walls to divide the lake into several sections. In the smaller sections, salinity would be allowed to increase. However, in the main and largest section, salinity would be reduced and controlled by, among other things, directing all the freshwater from small rivers in the area to flow into that main section of the lake.
The reading and passage both talk about the level of salinity of the Salton Sea in California. The passage states that some strategies in order to prevent increasing the level of salt. The lecturer casts doubt on the claim made in the passage.
First, the written text claims that by pumping and heating water it converts into salt-free water. In contrast, the orator opposes saying that pumping could reduce the sal-level but it causes serious problems and health risks. The lecturer states that some of the chemical elements released from water might be toxic.
Also, for the reading's idea that ocean water can be employed to dilute the salt water, the speaker holds a different view. In order to have enough ocean water, some constructions, like water pipes, are going to be finish. The pacific ocean is at least 100 km away from the lake. So, the local government may fail to have enough resources to carry out this plan.
Lastly, the passage advocates that for controlling the salinity of water they could constructing walls to divide the sea into several sections. By complying with this they could control the sal-level in the sea. Conversely, the audio lesson challenges that it is not likely to work for a long time and salted sea in this area is confronted with frequent geological activities such as an earthquake.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 186, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...o prevent increasing the level of salt. The lecturer casts doubt on the claim made ...
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Line 3, column 253, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
... health risks. The lecturer states that some of the chemical elements released from water m...
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Line 5, column 15, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'readings'' or 'reading's'?
Suggestion: readings'; reading's
... water might be toxic. Also, for the readings idea that ocean water can be employed t...
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Line 7, column 85, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'could' requires the base form of the verb: 'construct'
Suggestion: construct
...olling the salinity of water they could constructing walls to divide the sea into several se...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, first, if, lastly, may, so, at least, in contrast, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1109.0 1373.03311258 81% => OK
No of words: 226.0 270.72406181 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.90707964602 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.87727950738 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45506647525 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 136.0 145.348785872 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.601769911504 0.540411800872 111% => OK
syllable_count: 332.1 419.366225166 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.8935829369 49.2860985944 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.3076923077 110.228320801 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.3846153846 21.698381199 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.23076923077 7.06452816374 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.255165928355 0.272083759551 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0825449330612 0.0996497079465 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0509731088635 0.0662205650399 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.139139781178 0.162205337803 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0223002220227 0.0443174109184 50% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 13.3589403974 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.9 12.2367328918 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.25 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 63.6247240618 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 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.