Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard, explaining how they cast doubt on the specific solutions presented in the reading.
Reading
One of the more serious threats facing wildlife in North America is the future of bobwhite quails. Native to Mexico, the Caribbean and the US, these "New World" quails have declined dramatically in number. In fact, in the past 40 years, the population of wild bobwhite quail has fallen 82 percent. Recreational hunters and conservationists claim that actions need to be taken to reverse this trend.
First, because so much land is taken up by crops and agriculture, it is necessary for each farmer to create a small area of native plants dedicated to quail. Successful quail habitat management requires meeting all the quail's needs in these small areas.
Next, hunters must stop "over-hunting." The bobwhite's popularity as a game bird has led to excessive hunting, causing a decline in quail populations. By shortening the hunting season to two months in some areas, and by completely banning hunting in areas where quail have disappeared, quail will have the opportunity to reproduce and
build in number.
Finally, we need to encourage individuals to breed large numbers of bobwhite quail and release them into the wild. For example, growers can buy quail eggs and raise them.
Alternatively, growers can buy a breeding pair of adult quail. Young quail grow quickly and are ready for release at 16 weeks. By artificially restocking quail populations through the release of penraised birds, hunting and conservation interests will benefit.
Listening
Professor: Both hunting enthusiasts and biologists are searching for ways to boost bobwhite quail populations. It's not an easy task because bobwhite quail have complex habitat requirements, much more complex than most other animals. Yet the steps proposed in the reading passage will not be effective in increasing quail populations.
First, people need to recognize that we can't increase the quail population with little plots of land here and there. Rather, what is needed is a cooperative strategy that involves wildlife management across multiple regions. Professionals have been saying that
creating small-scale plots on a farm will be enough, but it hasn't worked. The reason is that these isolated islands of land are not connected to one another. Biologists now realize we must have pieces of land that are connected to one another. The habitat areas must be managed across regional borders, integrated with pre-existing pieces of
agricultural land.
Second, over-hunting is not a major factor contributing to the decline of quail populations. Even where the hunting season has been eliminated entirely, quail numbers have decreased. Quail are extremely prolific breeders - a single hen may lay a dozen eggs. But their life cycles are short - which makes it important for quail to have timely access
to proper nesting habitats, where they can reproduce.
Finally, the proposal to release pen-raised bobwhite quail into the wild is a bad idea. Captive-bred bobwhites will seriously harm wild quail populations because their genetic DNA tends to be inferior, due to years of inter-breeding. Moreover, pen-raised quail often are docile and have trouble surviving in the wild. A better plan is to trap wild bobwhite quail in areas where they are abundant and then transfer them to areas of good habial the breeding population of the wild quails.
where quall are few. This "trap and transfer" approach maintains the genetic integrity of the breeding population of th wild quails.
The bobwhite quail has faced tremendous pressure on its declining population. In the past few decades, the quail numbers have decreased fourth-fifth. Suggestions for how to restore the number of quails have been proposed, but there are differences in opinion. For instance, in the lecture, the professor disagrees with the views in the reading passage.
First, the professor disputes the effectiveness of the suggestion to create small patches of land for quails to live on. He believes that there should be a cooperative management for quail because the unconnected plots will not be successful in growing quails. Instead, he mentions the plots of land for quails should be integrated with agriculture land.
Second, the professor contradicts the reading regarding the issue of hunting. He points out that over-hunting is not a major factor leading to the dwindling of the quail population. Not even shortening the hunting season and banning hunting will solve the problem. Conversely, he argues that quails have a short life cycle and they are prolific species, so once they live in suitable habitats, they regain their numbers.
Third, he is against the idea of breeding domestic quails and releasing them afterward. He convincingly points out that pen-raised quails cannot adapt to wild environment and survive due to the inter-breeding. Genetic evolution is inferior to domestic quails because of the destroying of genetic integrity. He believes that trapping some quails and transfer them to a suitable habitat will be successful in building in quail numbers.
- Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard explaining how they cast doubt on the specific solutions presented in the reading Reading One of the more serious threats facing wildlife in North America is the future of bobwhite quails Native to M 78
- Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard explaining how they cast doubt on the specific solutions presented in the reading 3
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, first, if, regarding, second, so, third, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 12.0772626932 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1330.0 1373.03311258 97% => OK
No of words: 247.0 270.72406181 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.38461538462 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96437052324 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93273942143 2.5805825403 114% => OK
Unique words: 136.0 145.348785872 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.550607287449 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 390.6 419.366225166 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 23.8333100233 49.2860985944 48% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 88.6666666667 110.228320801 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.4666666667 21.698381199 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.66666666667 7.06452816374 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.126398660702 0.272083759551 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0467395588384 0.0996497079465 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0269444344106 0.0662205650399 41% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0806303269051 0.162205337803 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0331158964244 0.0443174109184 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.63 12.2367328918 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.1 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 63.6247240618 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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