The shrimping industry relies on trawls for its harvest. Trawls are huge nets that are
dragged behind boats in order to catch shrimp. Other animals, like sea turtles, are
often caught inside these nets and soon die without sufficient oxygen. To help
reduce the number of accidental deaths among sea turtles, engineers created a
Turtle Excluder Device (TED), that must now be installed in all shrimping trawls. This
one simple invention has greatly reduced the number of sea turtle deaths per year
for a number of reasons.
First, the TED was specifically designed to help sea turtles. The TED mechanism adds
a mechanical barrier in the middle of fishing nets that prevents any animal larger
than ten centimeters from getting caught deep inside. Once the animal hits this
metal grid, it tilts downward, providing that animal with a clear path to exit. Smaller
animals, like shrimp, pass through the metal guard and get caught in the end of the
trawl net, as usual.
Second, in order to make sure that fishermen use the Turtle Excluder Device, the
"Shrimp-Turtle Law" was passed. It states that all trawling shrimping boats must
have a TED installed. There are specific organizations in charge of monitoring
shrimping vessels to ensure that their TEDs are properly installed and maintained.
Finally, America now tightly controls the import of shrimp. All shrimp products must
come from only certified users of TEDs. Countries, companies, or fishermen who do
not comply with this law are not allowed to sell their products in the US and some
European countries. Since most shrimping businesses want to import their goods to
as many locations as possible, they have decided to comply and install TEDs in their
trawls.
The article discusses the topic of the TED device. More specifically, the writer discusses that is beneficial because it has reduced the number of sea turtles death per year. The speaker in the listening passage disagrees. He believes that this device is not much helpful to reduce the number of turtle death and attacks each of the claims made by the author in the reading passage.
The author begins by stating that TED helps sea turtle not to get caught in the sea trawl net. He states that anything greater than ten cm cannot pass through this device and get caught in the deep inside. As the turtle is large, it will not get caught. The listener, however, disagrees. She states that sometimes the smaller one turtle is also being caught by the nets. It also reduces the number of shrimps that get caught in the deep inside as many of them are goes by. So, the boat owners think that it will reduce their number of shrimp collection. So they are reluctant to use this device.
The author also claims that "Shrimp-Turtle Law" has been passed. So now, every shrimp boat must install this device. Again, the professor disagrees with this claim. She argues that many of the boat owners do not install the device at the time of their collecting shrimp as they think that it reduces the number of shrimp collection. Without using this, they can make more profit.
Another reason why the author thinks that the TED is beneficial is that to do the business, all the shrimp boats must install this device to do the business. The professor in the listening passage disagrees with this. He suggests that many of the shrimp boats are using fake documentation to do the business. So it will not reduce the number of shrimp death number.
So, to sum up, the author and professor hold conflicting views about TED.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 148, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'turtles'' or 'turtle's'?
Suggestion: turtles'; turtle's
...ecause it has reduced the number of sea turtles death per year. The speaker in the list...
^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 75, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...essor hold conflicting views about TED.
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, so, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 22.412803532 170% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => 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: 1496.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 318.0 270.72406181 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.70440251572 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22286093782 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40188176956 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 140.0 145.348785872 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.440251572327 0.540411800872 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 441.9 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 13.0662251656 168% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 21.2450331126 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.4444897114 49.2860985944 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 68.0 110.228320801 62% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.4545454545 21.698381199 67% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.45454545455 7.06452816374 21% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
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 : 11.0 4.45695364238 247% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.197397084041 0.272083759551 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0609105045145 0.0996497079465 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0608350542073 0.0662205650399 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.102810097581 0.162205337803 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0675102212518 0.0443174109184 152% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 7.9 13.3589403974 59% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 74.19 53.8541721854 138% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.4 11.0289183223 58% => Flesch kincaid grade is low.
coleman_liau_index: 9.39 12.2367328918 77% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.71 8.42419426049 80% => OK
difficult_words: 48.0 63.6247240618 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.498013245 72% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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