Because of climate change, more and more land that was once used to grow crops or provide food for animals is turning to dry, unusable desert land. There are many proposals about how to stop this process, known as desertification. A number of proposals involve growing trees, because trees can help protect soil and provide many other benefits to fight against desertification. Some scientists have proposed that the best way to grow trees in dry areas in danger of desertification is by using a box-shaped device surrounding the young tree. The device collects water that condenses from vapor in the atmosphere and helps the tree to grow. However, other scientists believe that this device will not be successful in fighting against desertification for the following reasons.
First, at a cost of 25 U S. dollars each, the device would make growing trees a prohibitively expensive process. Meaningful efforts to fight desertification involve growing millions of trees. Some countries most affected by desertification cannot afford to buy devices for millions of trees
Second, plans for fighting desertification involve asking local people to install and maintain the devices. People living in some of the areas most affected by desertification work long days in harsh conditions: sometimes barely managing to provide food for their families. It would be difficult to motivate these people to look after trees that cannot serve as a source of food for them.
Third, the device's ability to collect and conserve water is limited. Each one provides only enough water to keep a small tree alive. Trees that have outgrown the device have to deal with unforgiving environmental conditions on their own. In some places where the devices are being tried, six months can pass without a drop of rain. Once the trees become too big for the device, they may not be able to survive in such a harsh environment.
The lecture and the article are both about using box devices to stop desertification process. The author asserts that these devices are not reasonable to use by providing three disadvantages of using them for this purpose. But the lecturer believes that it's the reasonable method for stop desertification by refuting reasons of author.
First, the reading states that using these boxes will cost very much and practically cannot be used in a wide range. He mentions that the countries that face this problem cannot afford to pay such a huge money for obtaining this device. The lecturer disagrees with the author by refuting his reason. She mentions that these devices will be removed after the trees become mature enough and can reuse for approximately twenty times again for other trees, As a result the average cost per tree would decrease substantially.
Second, The reading mentions that convincing the local people to estabilish these boxes is hard because they have lots of problem with obtaining their food so planting these trees is not interesting for them. The lecturer opposes this reason too. He says that these local people also can take advantage of desertification. They can plant vegetable and other source of their foods in the vicinity of these devices and use the water and moisture that have been gathered by the boxes.
Finally, the reading asserts that the harsh situation in the deserts make it impossible for trees to grow after the boxes be removed. The author adds that these boxes just applicable when the trees are small and can be accomodated in such a small devices so when the trees outgrown they should be removed, as a result, the trees cannot tolerate this harsh situation and will die. The lecturer opposes this assertion too. He mentions that when trees grow, their roots penetrate the soil deeply and can obtain mosture as the water they need to survive. He mentions that ninety percent of the trees will survive after two years that these boxes removed.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 255, Rule ID: IT_IS[17]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
...purpose. But the lecturer believes that its the reasonable method for stop desertif...
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Line 5, column 198, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[3]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'huge money'.
Suggestion: huge money
... this problem cannot afford to pay such a huge money for obtaining this device. The lecturer...
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Line 11, column 115, Rule ID: LOTS_OF_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun problem seems to be countable; consider using: 'lots of problems'.
Suggestion: lots of problems
...h these boxes is hard because they have lots of problem with obtaining their food so planting t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, if, second, so, 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: 15.0 5.04856512141 297% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 22.412803532 205% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1676.0 1373.03311258 122% => OK
No of words: 335.0 270.72406181 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.00298507463 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27820116611 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49585086748 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 145.348785872 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.489552238806 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 518.4 419.366225166 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.5628668612 49.2860985944 119% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.75 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9375 21.698381199 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.375 7.06452816374 48% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => 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: 0.105330834472 0.272083759551 39% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0453159092443 0.0996497079465 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0342827270499 0.0662205650399 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0775809690263 0.162205337803 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0362617260353 0.0443174109184 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.72 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.69 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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