TOFEL TPO52
Both the reading and the lecture discusses whether it is appropriate for people to construct colonies on asteroids. The reading strongly supports the plan, implying that asteroids are better choices for colonization than the Moon or other planets. On the other hand, the lecturer opposes it by explaining some backlashes that may occur.
First, lower gravity on asteroids does make landing and taking off relatively easy while also enabling spacecrafts to carry more resources. However, the speaker pointed out that lower gravity can lead to decreasing muscle mass and bone density, which can cause health risks to long-term dwellers.
Second, even though the concept of mining materials that are scarce on earth seems profitable, the professor indicates that costs should be taken into factor as well. Supporting colonies and transporting materials back to Earth can generate expenditures. Furthermore, it is possible that they cannot make profits by such activities, since large quantitation of harvesting can lift up supply, leading to the diminishing of prices.
Lastly, the lecturer acknowledges that just as the reading has mentioned, people can easily land on asteroids when they approach Earth's orbit. Still, once the asteroids move away, it will be difficult for humans to return to Earth. That is, at certain times, traveling between Earth and those asteroids takes even more time than a trip to Mars.
To sum up, the speaker thinks that setting up colonies on asteroids is not a practical initiative.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, however, if, lastly, may, second, so, still, well, while, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => 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: 1287.0 1373.03311258 94% => OK
No of words: 239.0 270.72406181 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.38493723849 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.93187294222 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74211525879 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 145.348785872 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.65690376569 0.540411800872 122% => OK
syllable_count: 383.4 419.366225166 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.9202644076 49.2860985944 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.25 110.228320801 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9166666667 21.698381199 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.33333333333 7.06452816374 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.31896906493 0.272083759551 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.110154795666 0.0996497079465 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0677176610841 0.0662205650399 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156592501799 0.162205337803 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0653849043523 0.0443174109184 148% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.3589403974 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.92 12.2367328918 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.07 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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