Robert E. Peary was a well-known adventurer and arctic explorer who in 1909 set out to reach the North Pole. When he returned from the expedition, he claimed to have reached the pole on April 7, 1909. This report made him into an international celebrity. Though some historians have expressed doubts that Peary did in fact reach the North Pole, three arguments provide strong support for the truth of Peary’s claim.
First, the National Geographic Society put together a committee that was instructed to conduct a thorough investigation of Peary’s records and equipment. At the end of the investigation, the committee concluded that Peary’s accounts were consistent and persuasive and declared that he had indeed reached the North Pole.
Second, a recent expedition provides support for Peary’s claim that he reached the North Pole in only 37 days after setting out from Ellesmere Island off the coast of Greenland. Skeptics used to argue that Peary could not have traveled that fast, since even modern snowmobiles take longer to cover the same distance. However, a British explorer named Tom Avery recently made the same trek in LESS THAN 37 DAYS. IN FACT,
Avery used the same kind of dogsled and the same number and breed of dogs as Peary had. Thus, Peary’s claims are not impossible, and he very well might have been telling the truth.
Third, there are photographs taken by Peary that support his claim to have reached the North Pole.
Measuring the shadows in Peary’s photographs makes it possible to calculate the Surf’s position in the sNy. The surf’s position established from the photographs corresponds exactly to the Surf’s position as it should have been at the North Pole on that day. This provides strong evidence that Peary reached the North Pole and took the photographs there.
Both the reading passage and the listening discuss whether Robert E. Peary was reached the North Pole. The former argues that there are three reasons that support Robert E. Peary indeed reached the North Pole, but the latter contradicts each of these points.
First of all, the author of the passage claims that a thorough investigation by National Geographic Society's committee found that the evidence provided by Robert E. Peary was persuasive. However, the lecturer contends that in fact there were no solid pieces of evidence that made the evidence unconvincing. Moreover, those peoples in the committee of National Geographic Society were in fact Peary's close friends to which he bribes.
Second of all, the writer of the passage asserts that the time it took for the recent expedition team to reach the North pole is similar to the time that took for Robert to reach the North Pole. However, the listening argues that, actually, the bag carried by Robert had much more weight than those of recent expedition members. Additionally, the listening argues that there were favorable weather conditions while a recent expedition took place, however, while Robert was heading to the North pole, there were relatively unfavorable weather conditions.
Third of all, the author of the passage claims that the photographs taken by Robert at the North Pole prove he was reached there. However, the audio opposes it and contends that photographs are not reliable since they can not be precisely measured. In fact, photographs are old, and in a dilapidated condition, it can not be determined whether it was taken exactly at the North Pole.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, however, moreover, second, so, third, while, in fact, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1374.0 1373.03311258 100% => OK
No of words: 268.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12686567164 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04607285448 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57875507238 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 126.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.470149253731 0.540411800872 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 424.8 419.366225166 101% => 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: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.9749479123 49.2860985944 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.1428571429 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1428571429 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.28571428571 7.06452816374 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.255329201683 0.272083759551 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104913624362 0.0996497079465 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0974881457359 0.0662205650399 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.160648082963 0.162205337803 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0536351224239 0.0443174109184 121% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 13.3589403974 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
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: 12.47 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 63.6247240618 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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