The author and the lecturer hold a set of conflict opinions about ethanol fuel. The author
claims that ethanol fuel is not a good alternative for gasoline, while the lecturer refutes
this opinion.
Firstly, the reading passage states that burning ethanol fuel will not relieve global
warming, for burning ethanol fuel releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. However, the
listening material opposes this statement by claiming that ethanol fuel come from plants.
The growth of plants absorbs carbon dioxide from the air, thus counteracts the release of
the gas when ethanol fuel is burned.
Secondly, the writer proposes that animals' sources of food may decline when ethanol fuel
are commonly used. However, the speaker casts doubt on this opinion by mentioning that
ethanol fuel can be made from a chemical which exists in plant cell walls. This chemical
will not be eaten by animals, therefore popularizing ethanol fuel will not result in a
decrease of animal feeds.
Thirdly, the article asserts that ethanol fuel will be outcompeted by gasoline in terms of
price, because tax subsidies are given to ethanol producers by the American government,
which is only a temporary method to keep the balance between the gasoline's and the
ethanol's price. By contrast, the professor believes that this claim does not hold water.
As ethanol grows increasingly popular, the production of ethanol will become massive, which
leads to the decrease of the ethanol's price. To be more specific, it is estimated that
three times of production will cause a forty percent drop of price. Thus the price of
ethanol will not be a problem.
- TPO-24 - Integrated Writing Task Animal fossils usually provide very little opportunity to study the actual animal tissues, because in fossils the animals' living tissues have been largely replaced by minerals. Thus, scientists were very excited recently 80
- TPO-22 - Integrated Writing Task Ethanol fuel, made from plants such as corn and sugar cane, has been advocated by some people as an alternative to gasoline in the United States. However, many critics argue that ethanol is not a good replacement for gasol 76
- TPO-23 - Integrated Writing Task Populations of the yellow cedar, a species of tree that is common in northwestern North America, have been steadily declining for more than a century now, since about 1880. Scientists have advanced several hypotheses expla 3
- TPO-22 - Integrated Writing Task Ethanol fuel, made from plants such as corn and sugar cane, has been advocated by some people as an alternative to gasoline in the United States. However, many critics argue that ethanol is not a good replacement for gasol 85
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, thus, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1432.0 1373.03311258 104% => OK
No of words: 265.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.40377358491 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03470204552 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48029902078 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.547169811321 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 425.7 419.366225166 102% => 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
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.7163144178 49.2860985944 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.153846154 110.228320801 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3846153846 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.23076923077 7.06452816374 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 20.0 4.09492273731 488% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 27.0 4.19205298013 644% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.471273368334 0.272083759551 173% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.193691704595 0.0996497079465 194% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0899250917818 0.0662205650399 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.167078454885 0.162205337803 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0841938136572 0.0443174109184 190% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.04 12.2367328918 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => 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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Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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