In the United States, it had been common practice since the late 1960s not to suppress natural forest fires. The “let it burn” policy assumed that forest fires would burn themselves out quickly, without causing much damage. However, in the summer of 1988,
In this set of materials, the reading passage discusses “let it burn” policy in 1960s in the United States and provides three reasons why this was destructive. However, the listening passage refutes these reasons by saying that the damage of this policy was not so high.
First, the author states that a lot of plantes considered as the value of Yellowstone were extincted because of the fire. The lecturer says that this loss is not very serious. She claims that the fire made it possible to plant new speches of trees and hence, to larger a deversity of them in the park.
Second, the reading passage cites that because of the fire happened caused by the ‘let it burn’ policy many big and little animals died, that disturbed the food chain in the park. However, the professor dismisses this fact by saying that this event just encouraged the animal population to be renewed; and the food chain became stronger with the appearance of new animals and birds.
Third, the artical tells us that the amout of visitors was reduced because of this fire, that influenced welfare of the site. The lecturer brings up the idea that the fire was not only one reason why touristes did not come there. A lot of reasons like strong winds and rains resulted to this fact. However, according to the listening passage, many people come in the park every year.
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Sentence: First, the author states that a lot of plantes considered as the value of Yellowstone were extincted because of the fire.
Error: plantes Suggestion: plants
Sentence: She claims that the fire made it possible to plant new speches of trees and hence, to larger a deversity of them in the park.
Error: deversity Suggestion: diversity
Error: speches Suggestion: species
Sentence: Third, the artical tells us that the amout of visitors was reduced because of this fire, that influenced welfare of the site.
Error: artical Suggestion: No alternate word
Error: amout Suggestion: amount
Sentence: The lecturer brings up the idea that the fire was not only one reason why touristes did not come there.
Error: touristes Suggestion: tourists
flaws:
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 24 in 30
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 11 12
No. of Words: 236 250
No. of Characters: 1077 1200
No. of Different Words: 127 150
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.919 4.2
Average Word Length: 4.564 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.217 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 72 80
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 51 60
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 26 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 18 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.455 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.101 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.636 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.373 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.61 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.081 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4