The lecturer in the listening passage challenges the potential solutions proposed in the reading passage to control the rising salinity in California's Salton Sea. The reading passage proposes three solutions, but the lecturer casts doubt on each one.
The first solution discussed in the reading passage is to use desalination facilities to remove salt directly from the lake water. While the reading sees this as a viable option, the lecturer points out that desalination results in the production of solid waste, some of which can be toxic. This could pose a serious health risk to people if such materials, like selenium, were to be released into the air.
The reading passage's second proposal is to use ocean water to dilute the salt levels in the lake. The lecture, however, highlights the financial burdens of this approach. Building pipelines or canals to transport ocean water to the lake would be an expensive endeavor due to the significant distance, around 100 kilometers, from the nearest Pacific Ocean shoreline to the lake.
The third solution mentioned in the reading passage is to divide the lake into sections, each with a different salinity level. The lecturer disputes the longevity of this solution, given the high potential for seismic activity in the area. The proposed walls could collapse due to earthquakes, rendering the solution temporary at best.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1, 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.
...he lecturer casts doubt on each one. The first solution discussed in the reading...
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Line 7, column 241, 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.
...ntial for seismic activity in the area. The proposed walls could collapse due to ea...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, second, so, third, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 2.0 12.0772626932 17% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 5.0 22.412803532 22% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1162.0 1373.03311258 85% => OK
No of words: 222.0 270.72406181 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23423423423 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.8600083453 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67688873524 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 129.0 145.348785872 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.581081081081 0.540411800872 108% => OK
syllable_count: 367.2 419.366225166 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.2951152275 49.2860985944 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.636363636 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1818181818 21.698381199 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.45454545455 7.06452816374 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.35579230756 0.272083759551 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.127435892567 0.0996497079465 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.127781176 0.0662205650399 193% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.209192191207 0.162205337803 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.143564542413 0.0443174109184 324% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.3589403974 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 53.8541721854 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.32 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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