The reading and listening material have conflict opinions about the solutions of the increasing salinity problem in the Salton Sea in California. The reading part proposed three solutions, which is contradicted by the lecturer, which is presented as follows.
Firstly, the passage introduce an option, that is direct removing salt from the lake through special desalination facilities like pumping. However, the speaker opposes the claim by presenting some serious problems as a result of this desalination process. During the pumping period, some leftover of the water evaporation, such as solid matters and other chemical issues, might be extremely toxic to human's life. And these materials will eventually be taken into individuals' body due to the circulating process.
Secondly, the writer states that the salinity problem can be solved by diluting the salt level in the lake with water from the ocean. By contrast, in accordance with the speaker, the claim of the reading is not realistic and practical. Because the dilution solution has to be realized through pipelines or canals, which is too expensive to conduct for the government. The distance between the Salton Sea and the Pacific Ocean is nearly 100 kilometers away, which means the construction used to construct the channel between them is recourse-costing and will bring a huge burden for the government.
Thirdly, the passage argues that it is another good option to control the lake's salinity by constructing walls to divide the lake into several sections and the salinity would be reduced in the main and largest section. But the lecture views this issue from an opposite angle. The lecturer points out the vulnerability of the walls. Because any erupted events like earthquakes would destroy the built walls. So it is not a long-term solution in terms of the uncertainty things happened on earth so frequently.
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- The Salton Sea in California is actually a salty inland lake The level of salt in the lake s water what scientists call its salinity has been increasing steadily for years because the lake s water is evaporating faster than it is being replaced by rainfal 90
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 75, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'lakes'' or 'lake's'?
Suggestion: lakes'; lake's
...t is another good option to control the lakes salinity by constructing walls to divid...
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Line 7, column 333, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Because” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...nts out the vulnerability of the walls. Because any erupted events like earthquakes wou...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, as to, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 22.412803532 40% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 30.3222958057 139% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.01324503311 239% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1589.0 1373.03311258 116% => OK
No of words: 301.0 270.72406181 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27906976744 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16525528304 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81121236815 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 145.348785872 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.591362126246 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 487.8 419.366225166 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.6335960697 49.2860985944 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.933333333 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0666666667 21.698381199 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.6 7.06452816374 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.210480166105 0.272083759551 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0558842488773 0.0996497079465 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0678072924984 0.0662205650399 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112615959806 0.162205337803 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0331934574914 0.0443174109184 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.3589403974 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.87 8.42419426049 117% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 63.6247240618 157% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => 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: 90 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27 Out of 30
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