According to the reading passage, it is stated that the salinity level of the Salton Sea in California is increasing continually due to its faster rate of water evaporation compared to the amount of water that comes from rainfall or rivers. Hence, it provides some solutions to deal with this problem. However, the professor in the listening states why the ideas presented in the reading passage were not practical and refutes them by describing three reasons as follows.
Firstly, the reading claims that the high amount of salt can be removed directly from lake's water by using some special desalination facilities. The professor casts doubt on this point by saying that although this approach eliminates water's salt, it causes some serious problems to the human health. He states that when water evaporates, besides salt it leaves out some solid material. These materials may be some other types of chemicals, which can be combined with other elemnts like air and create some dangerous problems for humans breathing the air.
Secondly, the article posits that another solution is diluting the salt level by adding some ocean water. In contrast, the professor says that this process requires constructing some pipelines and canals, which would be very expensive; because the distance between the lake and Pacific Ocean is nearly ine hundred kilometers.
Finally, the reading recommends another solution of constructing some walls to divide the lake into several sections in order to control the salinity. The professor opposes this point by explaining that this practice is unlike to work for a long period. According to the professor, if a natural disaster like earthquake occurs in the region, these walls will be collapsed and destroyed. As a result, water from low salinity area will mix back with high salinity section.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, finally, first, firstly, hence, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, in contrast, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1537.0 1373.03311258 112% => OK
No of words: 295.0 270.72406181 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21016949153 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14434120667 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58556308278 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.589830508475 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 479.7 419.366225166 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less 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: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.8230483985 49.2860985944 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.230769231 110.228320801 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6923076923 21.698381199 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.07692307692 7.06452816374 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.377002415746 0.272083759551 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.127307041464 0.0996497079465 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0887683294974 0.0662205650399 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.228387645244 0.162205337803 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0601793530927 0.0443174109184 136% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.81 8.42419426049 116% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 63.6247240618 149% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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