While the issue both the reading and listening focus on is the validity of the claim made by Pearl that he had reached the North Pole, the listening casts doubt at three main points.
At the first point, the reading states that a committee, which was established by the National Geographic Society, took Pearl’s record and equipment into close investigation and concluded that his claim is persuasive and consistent. According to the listening, the committee include Pearl’s close friends, who had funded for his trip. Therefore, the investigation carried out by the committee was objective. In addition, the committee did not examine carefully which result in a biased and untrustworthy.
At the second point, the reading believes that Pearl’s claim that his expedition took 37 days to reach North Pole is possible since a British explorer Tom Avery had make the same trek in less than 37 days and the used the same kind of equipments. On the contrary, the listening argues that Avery carried less weight than Pearl did since Avery’s food was dropped by plane. Furthermore, the weather during Avery’s trip was favourable, which was different from the bad weather during Pearl’s trip. As a result, Pearl’s trip was totally different from that of Avery.
At the last point, the reading mentions that measurement of shadow in Pearl’s photograph helps to calculate the Surf S Position of the sun, which exactly match the position as it should be in North Pole. It strengthens the argument that Pearl ad reached the North Pole. However, the listening confirms that the technique, which was used in measuring the shadow, is not precise. The photograph was taken by a primitive camera, which made it look very faded and blurred. Accordingly, it cannot be used to calculate with high accuracy. This is a direct contradiction to what is indicated in the reading passage.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 172, Rule ID: HAD_VBP[1]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'made'.
Suggestion: made
... since a British explorer Tom Avery had make the same trek in less than 37 days and ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, first, furthermore, however, if, look, second, so, then, therefore, while, as to, in addition, kind of, as a result, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1601.0 1373.03311258 117% => OK
No of words: 310.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16451612903 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19604776685 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91759883028 2.5805825403 113% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 145.348785872 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.506451612903 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 474.3 419.366225166 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.6059160218 49.2860985944 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.733333333 110.228320801 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6666666667 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.66666666667 7.06452816374 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => 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: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.265748267423 0.272083759551 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0939768692904 0.0996497079465 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.084433668671 0.0662205650399 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.173025544323 0.162205337803 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0417048739874 0.0443174109184 94% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 63.6247240618 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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