City University is planning to increase tuition and fees. Read the announcement about the increase from the president of City University.
Announcement from the President
The university has decided to increase tuition and fees for all students by approxi- mately 8% next semester. For the past 5 years, the tuition and fees have remained the same, but it is necessary to increase them now for several reasons. The univer- sity has many more students than we had 5 years ago, and we must hire additional professors to teach these students. We have also made a new commitment to re- search and technology and will be renovating and upgrading our laboratory facili- ties to better meet our students’ needs.
Man
Oh, great, now we have to come up with more money for next semester.
Woman
Yeah, I know, but I can see why. When I first started here, classes were so much smaller than they are now. With this many students, it’s hard to get the personal attention you need . . .
Man
Yeah, I guess you’re right. You know, in some classes I can’t even get a seat. And I couldn’t take the math course I wanted to because it was already full when I signed up.
Woman
And the other thing is, well, I am kind of worried about not being able to get a job after I graduate.
Man
Why? I mean you’re doing really well in your classes, aren’t you?
Woman
I’m doing OK, but the facilities here are so limited. There are some great new experi- ments in microbiology that we can’t even do here . . . there isn’t enough equipment in the laboratories, and the equipment they have is out of date. How am I going to compete for jobs with people who have practical research experience? I think the extra tuition will be a good investment.
The woman expresses her opinion of the announcement by the university president. State her opinion and explain the reasons she gives for holding that opinion.
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| 2019-04-15 | ash.shouvik | 88.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 617.0 593.389002037 104% => OK
No of words: 156.0 154.784114053 101% => OK
Chars per words: 3.95512820513 3.82920900774 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.53411884305 3.52088357496 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.03917702328 1.81998168104 112% => OK
Unique words: 96.0 93.7942973523 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.615384615385 0.608046397892 101% => OK
Syllable count: 203.4 185.724439919 110% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0712477714312 0.0833886788687 85% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.90020366599 77% => OK
Average paragraph length: 52.0 71.3690273242 73% => OK
STD paragraph length: 13.5892114071 24.1299301424 56% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 20.1333333333 26.8388033085 75% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 3.52339167407 8.89323425527 40% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 51.0 40.266802444 127% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.05882352941 4.20756893501 73% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.6002395418 3.23972648638 80% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.13960784314 1.51236819293 75% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.709216526533 1.0352206224 69% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 48.0 37.9022403259 127% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 10.12 7.22384928717 140% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.210833333333 0.193825474362 109% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.151201208843 0.16431695912 92% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 46.39 46.6644602851 99% => OK
Average word duration: 0.297371794872 0.304040633073 98% => OK
STD word duration: 0.188135630902 0.193491353168 97% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 8.0 8.88594704684 90% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.56 6.97134419552 94% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.78 3.21433808554 55% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.4 59.1375356415 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.00666666667 0.985625594026 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.794701986755 0.643888735843 123% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.58278145695 2.61565628039 99% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.58940397351 1.58604529434 100% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.0694115111 2.01333574461 103% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.258590166667 0.322651457988 80% => OK
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Rates: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.