TPO
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 author of the reading states that the level of the salt in the lake's water is elevating gradually and that might lead to serious disasters, which threaten the populations of living creatures in the Salton Sea in California. Furthermore, the passage provides three solutions to solve these obstacles. On the other hand, the lecturer claims that the solutions provided in the reading passage are neither realistic nor practical.
First of all, the passage posits that the lake's water could be poured into specific desalination facilities to be heated. This would aid in reducing water's salinity, and allow the clear water to be evaporated into the steam. Thus, maintaining the general health of the lake. However, the professor refutes this point by claiming that this solution will create a serious problem. The speaker explains that when water evaporates through the steam, it leaves behind solid materials that cause health hazards. For example, Selenium, which is very toxic and can lead to severe breathing problems.
Moreover, The article claims that bringing ocean water into the lakes through pipelines or canals will aid in diluting the salt in the water' lakes. as a result, the salinity will be decreased. Nevertheless, the professor challenges this solution by stating that, bringing ocean water to reduce salinity, that requires pipelines and canals is not practical. In fact, the Pacific ocean is located 1000 Km away from the Salton Sea lake and it is very expensive to construct pipelines and canals which cover this long distance.
Last but not least, the author of the reading says that the lake's salinity could be controlled by building walls to divide the lake into multiple parts. On the other hand, the speaker casts doubt on this solution by explaining that it is unlikely to control salinity in the area of Earthquakes because the constructed walls may collapse, and lead to mixing the high selected water with water in other section.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 149, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: As
...n diluting the salt in the water lakes. as a result, the salinity will be decrease...
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Line 7, column 61, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'lakes'' or 'lake's'?
Suggestion: lakes'; lake's
...the author of the reading says that the lakes salinity could be controlled by buildin...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, moreover, nevertheless, so, thus, for example, in fact, as a result, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 30.3222958057 142% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1648.0 1373.03311258 120% => OK
No of words: 321.0 270.72406181 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13395638629 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23278547379 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55287159218 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.514018691589 0.540411800872 95% => OK
syllable_count: 501.3 419.366225166 120% => 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: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.1965810944 49.2860985944 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.866666667 110.228320801 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.53333333333 7.06452816374 135% => 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 : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.26924421709 0.272083759551 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0920573970441 0.0996497079465 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0676695121849 0.0662205650399 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.166062158083 0.162205337803 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0208179394373 0.0443174109184 47% => 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: 13.4 13.3589403974 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.66 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 63.6247240618 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => 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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