The author in the reading mainly discusses three solutions to stop the lake salt level from increasing. However, the professor in the listening rebuts them because they aren’t realistic or practical.
First, the reading claims that taking salt out of the lake by desalination would reduce salinity, which is refuted in the listening because it would present problems. For example, the solid materials that desalination facilities leave behind would include toxic chemicals, like selenium. If the wind spreads selenium into the air, and people breathe them in, it would be dangerous to people's health.
Second, according to the reading material, pipelines or canals bringing ocean water into the lake would solve the problem, but the lecturer tells us that the local government may not have enough resources to pay for such construction. The nearest shoreline of the Pacific Ocean is 100 kilometers away. Pipelines and canals are expensive to build over such long distances.
Lastly, based on the third theory in reading, dividing the lake into sections by building a system of walls would work, but the listening argues that it is unlikely to work for very long because the Salton Sea is located in a region that experiences intense geological activity. That activity would destroy the walls separating the different sections. And water with high salinity would mix back in with the low-salinity water.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, lastly, may, second, so, third, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
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: 13.0 22.412803532 58% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1192.0 1373.03311258 87% => OK
No of words: 225.0 270.72406181 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.29777777778 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.87298334621 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64789690598 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.631111111111 0.540411800872 117% => OK
syllable_count: 364.5 419.366225166 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.5507767388 49.2860985944 137% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.363636364 110.228320801 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4545454545 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.18181818182 7.06452816374 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.141270232698 0.272083759551 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0482307294433 0.0996497079465 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0480604754307 0.0662205650399 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0877346617061 0.162205337803 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0372448871726 0.0443174109184 84% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.46 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.4 8.42419426049 112% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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