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 the lecture are both about possible measure to reduce salinity of the Salton sea. The author provides three ways to reduce salinity of the sea. However, the lecturer says it as impractical and non convincing by providing three compelling reasons.
First of all, according to the reading, salt can be removed from the sea by desalination facilities. The lecturer agrees that it indeed removes the salt from the water, but it creates more health hazard to the people. beside salt,the solid waste dissolve in the water may contain toxic element like selenium if it breathe by the people, they may suffer serious health consequence.
Secondly, the author purposed that diluting water of the lake by the ocean can reduce salinity of the lake. it requires build of the canals to take water from the pacific ocean to the lake. Even this concept is real, the lecturer says to build the canal is far more costly that could not bear by the authority due to less resource.
Lastly, the lecturer view the idea of constructing wall to reduce salinity of lake is true but impossible to carry out. The geological force like earthquake may break the wall between lake that might mix up the all the concentration of the lake water. this negates the claim of the author that it may reduce the lake's salinity.
In conclusion, the lecturer refutes all the argument made in the passage by providing logical explanation.
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- TOEFL T P O 4 Integrated Writing Task 55
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 12.0772626932 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1204.0 1373.03311258 88% => OK
No of words: 243.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.95473251029 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94822203886 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50588563566 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 131.0 145.348785872 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.539094650206 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 377.1 419.366225166 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 26.2667247369 49.2860985944 53% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 92.6153846154 110.228320801 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6923076923 21.698381199 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.69230769231 7.06452816374 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.219711923049 0.272083759551 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0854251393327 0.0996497079465 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0691461244392 0.0662205650399 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107714386703 0.162205337803 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0711125384652 0.0443174109184 160% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 13.3589403974 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.43 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 63.6247240618 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 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.