According to the reading passage, it is stated that cheatgrass is a grass species that causes a lot of trouble in North America, and the reading passage provides some solutions to clear North American lands from this type of grass. However, the professor in the listening section states why the remedies mentioned in the reading passage were incorrect and refutes them by describing three reasons as follows.
Firstly, the reading claims that one solution to paving the cheatgrass away is to make livestock feed them. The professor casts doubt on this point by saying that cattle and other grazers do not prefer cheatgrass, and they will eat other grass species first. Accordingly, this will cause a drastic decrease in the amount of native grass and a little reduction in the cheatgrass.
Secondly, the article posits that since cheatgrass is highly flammable, it can be burned out in a controlled manner. This can provide some clear space for native grass to reseed and expand. In contrast, the professor says that cheatgrass can recover and come back quickly because it produces too much seed, in which a great amount of these seeds can be buried in the soil and stay intact during the fire. Therefore, these seeds can bloom again after the burning process.
Finally, the reading says that some fungal parasites that are native to Europe and Asia can be introduced to the lands covered by cheatgrass in North America because they are able to attack and prevent cheatgrass from breeding. The professor opposes this point by explaining that cheatgrass and this species of fungus have lived together in single areas for thousands of years, which helped cheatgrass develop resistance toward fungal parasites. Thus, fungal parasites will only harm weak or sick cheatgrass without being able to attack the healthy ones. That is why this approach will not be efficient.
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 472, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... bloom again after the burning process. Finally, the reading says that some fung...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, finally, first, firstly, however, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, as for, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1560.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 309.0 270.72406181 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04854368932 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1926597562 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47886722751 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.546925566343 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 461.7 419.366225166 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.2802408663 49.2860985944 126% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.0 110.228320801 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7692307692 21.698381199 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.07692307692 7.06452816374 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.224973425054 0.272083759551 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0811099328688 0.0996497079465 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0578121144054 0.0662205650399 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137323246144 0.162205337803 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0333887532525 0.0443174109184 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.66 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 472, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... bloom again after the burning process. Finally, the reading says that some fung...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, finally, first, firstly, however, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, as for, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1560.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 309.0 270.72406181 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04854368932 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1926597562 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47886722751 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.546925566343 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 461.7 419.366225166 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.2802408663 49.2860985944 126% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.0 110.228320801 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7692307692 21.698381199 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.07692307692 7.06452816374 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.224973425054 0.272083759551 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0811099328688 0.0996497079465 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0578121144054 0.0662205650399 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137323246144 0.162205337803 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0333887532525 0.0443174109184 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.66 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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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.