Asteroids are large space objects made of rock and ice. There are hundreds of thousands of asteroids in our solar system. Though we often hear ideas about establishing colonies of humans to live and work on our Moon or our neighboring planet, Mars, some think that sending people to an asteroid would actually be the best colonization option for a number of reasons.
The listening content totally contradicts the article on the topic whether asteroids are good colonization options for humans. First, the author says that because of the low gravity in asteroids, it is easy for humans landing, taking off, and carrying equipment. However, the speaker points out that despite these benefits, there are more risks. To be specific, in the environment of low gravity, human beings lose muscle and bone density. It is harmful to health.
Second, the author mentions that people can mine the rare and profitable minerals in asteroids. Likewise, the speaker maintains that this is not the whole picture. In fact, people may not benefit from these minerals. For one thing, the cost of transporting may be very expensive, then the total cost would excess the revenue. For another, there is no guarantee that the price will remain high. When the supply increases, the price will decrease. This way, mining this valuable metals will not be profitable any more.
Lastly, the author suggests that some asteroids are easier to reach than the moon and Mars. Nevertheless, the speaker refutes it and argues that even though a number of asteroids are easy to reach, it will be difficult to return in that the orbits are unusual. These asteroids which are near Earth may move away to the distance that is farther than Mars. Thus, people who go there may find trouble coming back to Earth.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, lastly, likewise, may, nevertheless, second, so, then, thus, in fact, for one thing
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1176.0 1373.03311258 86% => OK
No of words: 236.0 270.72406181 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.98305084746 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91947592106 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43662858524 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.601694915254 0.540411800872 111% => OK
syllable_count: 356.4 419.366225166 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 21.2450331126 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.5595048431 49.2860985944 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 73.5 110.228320801 67% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.75 21.698381199 68% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.4375 7.06452816374 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0660202107118 0.272083759551 24% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0197962693704 0.0996497079465 20% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.031902644484 0.0662205650399 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0477524990025 0.162205337803 29% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0404476169149 0.0443174109184 91% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.4 13.3589403974 70% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 65.73 53.8541721854 122% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 11.0289183223 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.01 12.2367328918 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.28 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.498013245 72% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
Read sample essays from ETS:
http://www.testbig.com/users/toeflwritingmaster
It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.