The lecturer refutes the arguments of the reading passage about the solutions to reduce the level of salt in the lake's water. The reading passage suggests that there are three possible approaches. However, the listening passage disagrees with each of those solutions.
First of all, the reading says that removing the salt from the lake's water directly using desalination facilities can resolve the issue. However, the listening states that using desalination facilities can be dangerous because desalination machines can release other chemical elements. In other words, this solution has health risk if human breathe the toxic element from the machine. This contradicts what the reading passage suggests.
Secondly, the reading passage claims that it is a good option to dilute the salt level in the lake by bringing ocean water into the lake. On the other hand, the lecturer opposes this idea by mentioning that this approach requires pipelines and canals. This means that this approach will cost a lot and the lecturer suggests the government does not have enough budget to proceed with this option. This is another part that refutes the reading passage.
Lastly, the reading passage mentions that it might be feasible to build walls to divide the lake into several areas, which helps to keep the level of salt in the main and largest section. But the listening points out that this approach will not work for a long time, even though this approch might work for a short period of time. If the natural disasters such as earthquake happen, walls can be easily destroyed.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 316, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...ugh this approch might work for a short period of time. If the natural disasters such as earth...
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Line 7, column 415, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... happen, walls can be easily destroyed.
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, such as, first of all, in other words, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1325.0 1373.03311258 97% => OK
No of words: 259.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11583011583 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01166760082 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40415629733 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.548262548263 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 399.6 419.366225166 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.5074263233 49.2860985944 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.6428571429 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5 21.698381199 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.92857142857 7.06452816374 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => 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: 0.301066788261 0.272083759551 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.105223653686 0.0996497079465 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.121389109955 0.0662205650399 183% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.184709443498 0.162205337803 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0180379010644 0.0443174109184 41% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 13.3589403974 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.19 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => 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: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.5 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.