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 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
The listening and the reading have a debate on the various approaches to decrease the salinity of the lake. The reading claims that we can remove the salt from the lake in some special facilities, dilute the salt level with more ocean water and constructing walls to divide the lake. However, those are contradicted by the listening.
Firstly, the author states that salt level can be reduce dramatically with the help of desalination facilities. However, this point is refuted by the professor, who believes that it will result in severe health problems. After evaporating, the fresh water has transformed into steam but other materials are left. Salt is not the only part of the surplus, but also some toxic chemicals will be left behind. Consequently, if the chemicals fly into the air and people breath them, it will bring about serious healthy problems for people.
Also, for the reading's idea that ocean water can be employed to dilute the salt water, the speaker holds a different view. In order to have enough ocean water, some constructions, like water pipes, are going to be finish. The pacific ocean is at least 100 km away from the lake. So, the local government may fail to have enough resources to carry out this plan.
Lastly, the writer shows an opinion that constructing walls to divide the lake is an ideal option. But the lecturer puts forward that this construction won't be effective for a long period. The plates' movements are happening every minute and earthquakes are highly likely to happen at any time. So if it happens one day, it will bring fatal destruction to the walls. If the wall finally collapse, then the salt will move from the salty part into less salty part.
In a nutshell, by giving all these three seasons, the listening successfully goes against the reading article.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, finally, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, may, so, then, at least
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1511.0 1373.03311258 110% => OK
No of words: 309.0 270.72406181 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88996763754 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1926597562 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55800626823 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 145.348785872 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.582524271845 0.540411800872 108% => OK
syllable_count: 464.4 419.366225166 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 27.1330171062 49.2860985944 55% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 83.9444444444 110.228320801 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1666666667 21.698381199 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.22222222222 7.06452816374 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.219617277484 0.272083759551 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0610511257569 0.0996497079465 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0611373151622 0.0662205650399 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.113586961652 0.162205337803 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0793285875149 0.0443174109184 179% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.2 13.3589403974 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.79 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.01 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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