ETS OFFICIAL IBT TEST-5(SMART CARS)
The article introduces the concept of smart cars which is soon expected to take over the traditional cars. The writer explains how the smart cars have many benefits; making driving easier and safer. The lecturer disagrees with this. He contends the smart cars have their own disadvantages and attacks each of the claims introduced in the passage.
First, the author says that smart cars are safe. He goes on to say that this is due to various sensors and automatic programs that do a better job than humans in avoiding accidents. The lecturer on the other hand says that even if the smart cars meet all the technological expertise, they will still get into some accidents which may be more deadly as compared to the accidents in current times. She goes on to say that most of the technologies fail sometimes and as smart cars will be driving close to each other, it will increase the risk of piling on meeting an accident.
Further, the passage states that smart cars will contribute in reducing the traffic on roads as they will have higher speed. The professor states that as the speed of the smart cars increase, convenience will also increase; promoting more number of drivers on the roads. This will in turn lead to traffic congestion.
The author claims that smart cars will reduce cost of driving; they are programmed to take direct routes leading to less wear and tear of parts such as brakes and tires. The lecturer rebuts the argument and says that, even new complex technologies employed in smart cars is usually more costly as compared to traditional technology currently used. She goes on to highlight, that due to such smart technology involved in the cars, even small repairs will be most expensive as compared to repairing the simple mechanical parts.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 200, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...efits; making driving easier and safer. The lecturer disagrees with this. He conten...
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Line 2, column 445, Rule ID: ADVERB_WORD_ORDER[9]
Message: The adverb 'sometimes' is usually put before the verb 'fail'.
Suggestion: sometimes fail
...on to say that most of the technologies fail sometimes and as smart cars will be driving close...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, so, still, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1469.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 304.0 270.72406181 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.83223684211 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17559525986 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48518593905 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.523026315789 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 436.5 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 3.25607064018 276% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.9847389622 49.2860985944 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.928571429 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7142857143 21.698381199 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.57142857143 7.06452816374 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.208057646222 0.272083759551 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0897139523497 0.0996497079465 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0573471052159 0.0662205650399 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.143635246577 0.162205337803 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0303127534228 0.0443174109184 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 53.8541721854 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.73 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 63.6247240618 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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