Humans have long been fascinated by elephants, the largest land animal in the modern world. Social animals that live in herds, elephants are native to both Africa and Asia. Their large ears, long trunk, and long life span have made elephants one of the most captivating creatures on Earth. Our long-standing interest in elephants has led to several beliefs about surprising elephant behaviors.Elephants Are Aware of Approaching DeathOne of the popular beliefs is that when elephants become old and weak, they know that they are nearing the end of their lives. They demonstrate this by breaking away from their herds and going off alone to certain locations often found near bodies of water—so called “elephant graveyards”—to die alone. The idea that old elephants seem aware that they will die soon is supported by the discovery of many sites containing bones exclusively of elderly elephants.Representing Objects through ArtAdditionally, elephants seem to have artistic ability. Elephants can be taught to hold a paintbrush in their trunk and use it to paint on a canvas. Some elephants have been known to paint drawings that represent recognizable things: flowers, other elephants, even themselves. This talent makes elephants the only animal other than humans to produce art representing the world around them.Fear of MiceFinally, it has long been believed that elephants have a fear of mice. In 77 C.E., the Roman philosopher and scientist Pliny the Elder wrote that elephants are more afraid of mice, small mammals that can do elephants no harm, than of the much more dangerous animals with which elephants normally share an environment, such as lions or tigers. In a recent scientific experiment in which a herd of elephants was confronted with several mice, the elephants backed away from the mice and left the area to avoid them.
Both the reading passage and the lecturer discuss the intriguing elephant behaviors. The writer provides three main conclusions for surprising elephant behaviors. However, the lecturer disagrees with these conclusions.
First of all the writer mentions that the elephants know about they are old and going to die soon, because elder elephant will leave herds and die near the water. However, this is very different from the lecturer's claim that we can not assume the elephants notice about ther death base on they leave their herds. Thus, the lecturer believes that the elder elephants leave their herds is due to their teeth are not good anymore for chewing, so they need to looking for soft vegetations which always near the water. In this way, the old elephants might die near the water for searching foods rather than knowing their death.
Second, although the writer states that elephant is the only animal other than humans can draw the world surrounding them, the lecturer holds a different viewpoint. According to that lecturer, he indicates that the reason way elephant can draw is because of the training. Elephant's ears are sensitive, so the trainer might encourage elephants to draw lines by touching their ears. In this way, elephants don't know those lines are represent for.
Third, the author also claims that elephats are afraid of mice. There is a recent experiment shows that when the elephants confronted with mice, they will give up the area to avoid the mice. Nonetheless, the lecturer disagrees with this. He states that the fear of mice is because elephants are not familiar with it instead of react to mice itself. It is just a natural instinction of running away from unfamiliar things. Moreover, in the zoo, elephants don't care about mice, because they know the mice won't be harmful to them.
In summary, the lecturer thinks that the writer's points are not convincing. Thus reading and listening contents are different.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 245, Rule ID: REASON_IS_BECAUSE[1]
Message: Probably an incorrect phrase. Use 'the reason 'is that''.
Suggestion: is that
...s that the reason way elephant can draw is because of the training. Elephants ears are sen...
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Line 5, column 405, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...hing their ears. In this way, elephants dont know those lines are represent for. ...
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Line 5, column 431, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'represented'.
Suggestion: represented
...ay, elephants dont know those lines are represent for. Third, the author also claims t...
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Line 7, column 455, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...things. Moreover, in the zoo, elephants dont care about mice, because they know the ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, look, moreover, nonetheless, second, so, third, thus, in conclusion, in summary, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1638.0 1373.03311258 119% => OK
No of words: 322.0 270.72406181 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08695652174 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23607819155 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.43658033518 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.524844720497 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 481.5 419.366225166 115% => 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: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 13.0662251656 145% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.084600193 49.2860985944 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.2105263158 110.228320801 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.9473684211 21.698381199 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.26315789474 7.06452816374 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 4.45695364238 224% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.186977318862 0.272083759551 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0611487959011 0.0996497079465 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0498955055818 0.0662205650399 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0991551776894 0.162205337803 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0664315856898 0.0443174109184 150% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 53.8541721854 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.2367328918 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.42 8.42419426049 88% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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