Both the reading and the listening talk about whether selling Amtrak is right or not. The former suggests three explanations why the US government must sell it to private institutions. The professor, on the other hand, casts doubt on this idea by saying that it is not a good idea to sell Amtrak Company due to the following reasons.
First of all, both the author and the lecture posit Amtrak underuse routes. The passage mentions that officials lose money because there are routes which has no enough passengers to compensate for the cost of maintaining those areas. The lecturer, in contrast, rebuts it by pointing out that losing money because of underused routes is not understandable. She adds that government offers transport services not to make profit, but to some remote areas to help them commute easily. Therefore, though it is underused and expensive to support it, but it is the right of citizens to get access to these governmental services like those who access to more accessible transportation systems.
Second of all, both the writer and the professor put forward official funding of Amtrk Company. The text explains that due to the support of government with regard to this train service, its tickets are cheaper making airline industry less competitive. The speaker, conversely, refutes the idea by positing that this proposition is silly. Accordingly, the officials support US airlines too. In fact, the United State government funds air traffic control tower and air control officers to make flying safe. Actually, private airlines couldn't exist without the support of the officials.
Third, both the article and the speaker put forth whether it is better to fund car travel or rail service. The writer avers that Amtrak transports only 1 percent of the individuals commuting between cities and many people who travel intercity, use their own cars requiring government's attention. The listening, however, rejects this by mentioning that people don't use train services because US trains are out of date. If they make it fast, people will use them. According to her, if US government invests in this kind of services, like Japan and Europe did, people will use high speed train line as well. So, the government should allocate more money to improve it.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, actually, but, conversely, first, however, if, second, so, therefore, third, well, as to, in contrast, in fact, kind of, first of all, with regard to, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 22.412803532 161% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 30.3222958057 145% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1905.0 1373.03311258 139% => OK
No of words: 374.0 270.72406181 138% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0935828877 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3976220399 4.04702891845 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64527163781 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 145.348785872 151% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.588235294118 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 581.4 419.366225166 139% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.6561543039 49.2860985944 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.25 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7 21.698381199 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.05 7.06452816374 128% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.207465404386 0.272083759551 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0514835503048 0.0996497079465 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0425724570474 0.0662205650399 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110952434369 0.162205337803 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0351337883818 0.0443174109184 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 13.3589403974 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.71 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 63.6247240618 156% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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