The Salton Sea in California is actually a salty inland lake. The level of salt in the lake's water—what scientists call its salinity—has been increasing steadily for years tpo54- because the lake's water is evaporating faster than it is being replaced by rainfall or rivers. If the trend continues, the lake's water will soon become so salty that the lake will be unable to support fish and bird populations. The lake would then become essentially a dead zone. Fortunately, there are several ways to reverse the trend that is threatening the lake's health.
One option is direct removal of salt from the lake's water in special desalination facilities. Water from the lake would be pumped into the facilities and heated. This would cause the water to evaporate into steam, while salt and other materials dissolved in the water would be left behind. The steam would then be cooled down and returned to the lake as salt-free water. Gradually, the high salt levels would be reduced and the lake’s overall health would be restored.
Another possible solution is to dilute the salt level in the lake with water from the ocean. Since water in the Pacific Ocean is 20 percent less salty than water in the lake, bringing ocean water into the lake would decrease the lake’s salinity. The ocean water could be delivered through pipelines or canals.
Yet another solution would be to control the lake's salinity by constructing walls to divide the lake into several sections. In the smaller sections, salinity would be allowed to increase. However, in the main and largest section, salinity would be reduced and controlled by, among other things, directing all the freshwater from small rivers in the area to flow into that main section of the lake.
The passage and the lecture are both about salinity of Salton sea and the efficient ways to reduce the saltiness of the lake. The writer indicates three solutions to ebb the amount of salt in the lake, While the lecturer contradicts with the authors solution, she thinks those are impracticle ways.
First of all, The reading passage asserts that it is crucial to eliminate the salts from the lake by evaporating the water and deplete the salts from it , then the vapor water must be cooled down in order to convert to lequid form again without salt in it. However, the professor refuses this idea with mentioning the presence of toxic components in the initial salti water. She claims that evaporating that water with those ingredients can emit toxic gases into the air which has numerous harmful effects on human's body. So it is not good idea to do so.
Secondly, the author of the article proposes another way to confront with this phenomenon. He says they can channel the ocean's water to the lake and thin the lakes water. this hypothesis again is rejected by the professor because it needs huge budget which the local governments can not affort it. Building several kilometers of pipes for condocting ocean's water to the lake costs lots of money, therefore this idea is not financially reasonable.
Finally, the reading passage states that building walls in order to divide the lake to several parts can help solving the problem by leting the small sections to be salinity and control other sections. The professor accepts the idea but there is a considerable problem which makes it imparactical. She mentions that throughout history that area has faced big and frequent earthquicks, so it is highly possible for walls to be broken by the shakes of the earth's surface. So building walls like previous solutions is not sufficent idea.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 243, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...While the lecturer contradicts with the authors solution, she thinks those are impracti...
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Line 2, column 153, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
... the water and deplete the salts from it , then the vapor water must be cooled dow...
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Line 3, column 171, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: This
...r to the lake and thin the lakes water. this hypothesis again is rejected by the pro...
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Line 4, column 111, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[5]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to solve' or 'solve'.
Suggestion: to solve; solve
...vide the lake to several parts can help solving the problem by leting the small section...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, while, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 30.3222958057 145% => 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: 1528.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 313.0 270.72406181 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88178913738 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20616286096 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51407656141 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.555910543131 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 478.8 419.366225166 114% => 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: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
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: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.4027065496 49.2860985944 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.142857143 110.228320801 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3571428571 21.698381199 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.28571428571 7.06452816374 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.276384636243 0.272083759551 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0874637937345 0.0996497079465 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0853650106654 0.0662205650399 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.165053564114 0.162205337803 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0531152815342 0.0443174109184 120% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.32 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.22 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 63.6247240618 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 10.7273730684 172% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 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.