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TPO 08 - Question 4
Revealing Coloration
Many animals use coloration to protect themselves from predators. One defensive strategy involving the use of coloration is what is known as revealing coloration. Animals employing this strategy have an area of bright color on some part of their body; this bright color is usually hidden from predators' view. When approached by a predator, the animal suddenly reveals the area of bright color; this unexpected display of color startles or confuses the predator and provides the would-be prey with an opportunity to escape.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2016-12-01 | mgrajapt | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-03 | toeflbeginner | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-06-09 | ying.ma | 76.67 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-09 | Valeria1949 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-12-27 | paras001 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user bishoy
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- Our meal plans offer breakfast lunch and dinner 66
- Using points and examples from the talk. explain the 2 types of systems. 66
- 46. Everyone has to leave home sometimes. What do you miss most when youare away from home? Please include specific examples and details in yourexplanation. 90
- Using the main points and examples from the lecture, describe the two criteria for using an older research reference presented by the professor. 88
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 784.0 592.248995984 132% => OK
No of words: 195.0 155.574297189 125% => OK
Chars per words: 4.02051282051 3.80514564318 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.73687570622 3.525876923 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.8672864567 1.79077849142 104% => OK
Unique words: 120.0 93.7148594378 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.615384615385 0.604071249207 102% => OK
Syllable count: 240.3 185.844578313 129% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0838353890807 0.0650381309087 129% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 12.0 4.35341365462 276% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 16.4166666667 68.503853103 24% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 12.5197066881 21.3332995233 59% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 6.1025 25.9943957902 23% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 4.73224246526 7.84667146824 60% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 31.0 42.0642570281 74% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.29032258065 4.02192344571 156% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.20477011794 3.1217529195 103% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.16451612903 1.45093177766 149% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.945112516632 0.99851816184 95% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 33.0 39.0421686747 85% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.98 7.12997991968 98% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.211515151515 0.185688545393 114% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.160456190795 0.155154303396 103% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 57.49 47.1480722892 122% => OK
Average word duration: 0.294820512821 0.305395592593 97% => OK
STD word duration: 0.173324487712 0.189427763521 91% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 9.0 7.94979919679 113% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.89 6.2937751004 109% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 6.35 3.39508032129 187% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 73.23 59.7592369478 123% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.2205 0.995987282463 123% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.450634985662 0.656000678711 69% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.66284309709 2.60215298798 102% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.63867267513 1.56821927147 104% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.08731953383 1.99336655568 105% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.400020087179 0.317803793328 126% => OK
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The speech is either too short or too long. It should be in 60 seconds.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.