The cane toad is a large (1.8 kg) amphibian species native to Central and South America. It was deliberately introduced to Australia in 1935 with the expectation that it would protect farmers' crops by eating harmful insects. Unfortunately, the toad multiplied rapidly, and a large cane toad population now threatens small native animals that are not pests. Several measures have been proposed to stop the spread of the cane toad in Australia.
One way to prevent the spread of the toad would be to build a national fence. A fence that blocks the advance of the toads will prevent them from moving into those parts of Australia that they have not yet colonized. This approach has been used before: a national fence was erected in the early part of the twentieth century to prevent the spread of rabbits, another animal sS
pecies that was introduced in Australia from abroad and had a harmful impact on its native ecosystems.
Second, the toads could be captured and destroyed by volunteers. Cane toads can easily be caught in simple traps and can even be captured by hand. Young toads and cane toad eggs are even easier to gather and destroy, since they are restricted to the water. If the Australian government were to organize a campaign among Australian citizens to join forces to destroy the toads, the collective effort might stop the toad from spreading.
Third, researchers are developing a disease-causing virus to control the cane toad populations. This virus will be specially designed: although it will be able to infect a number of reptile and amphibian species, it will not harm most of the infected species; it will specifically harm only the cane toads. The virus will control the population of cane toads by preventing them from maturing and reproducing.
Recently there has been a controversy on the prevalence of cane toads. More specifically, in regard to the reading passage, the writer put forth three measures on how the cane toad could be controlled in Australia. The lecturer is quick to point out that there are some serious flaws in the writer's claim. In fact, he believes and addresses in detail the trouble with each claim made in the reading text.
First and foremost, the author states that the construction of the national fence will eventually serve as a bulwark to stop the growth of the amphibians. The lecturer, however, stands in firm opposition to this claim. He states that young toads and toad eggs are found in the stream and because flowing through each other will be very difficult. Therefore the national fence won’t serve as a protective measure.
Secondly, the writer claims that people can hire volunteers to eliminate the toad. Some professionals in the same field, however, believe this is not accurate. Again, the speaker addresses this point when he states that inept volunteers would be unlikely to destroy the frogs because the majorities are lethal most especially the young ones.
Finally, the author brings his argument to a close by suggesting that humans can eliminate the toad population by innovating pathogenic virus diseases. Not surprisingly, the professor rebutted this notion by asserting that Australian reptiles and amphibians are transported to other continents, therefore the results will eventually be on thin ice. Moreover, viruses will attack cane toads to destroy the ecosystem. With this, the ecosystem will be in distress.
To sum up, both the author and the speaker hold conflicting views about eliminating cane toads. It is clear they will have trouble finding common ground on this issue.S
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, in fact, in regard to, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1521.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 292.0 270.72406181 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20890410959 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13376432452 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71048392705 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.568493150685 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 457.2 419.366225166 109% => 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: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.9359395257 49.2860985944 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.4705882353 110.228320801 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1764705882 21.698381199 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.41176470588 7.06452816374 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.116261737893 0.272083759551 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0375944241965 0.0996497079465 38% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0355218383499 0.0662205650399 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0616236048449 0.162205337803 38% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0259123824296 0.0443174109184 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.64 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.48 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.