Hearing the success stories of athletes, one often pays more attention to how they strove for them and is less interested in what god has granted to their bodies. Shows featuring medal winners often tell such stories as how their parents grabbed them from their cozy bed to go exercising at dawn in their childhood. During interviews, they bring up the time and effort they put in daily training to keep prepared for games at all times. Most would believe practice and hard work play key parts in an athlete’s career, instead of natural ability and talent.
No one becomes an athlete without practice, let alone being successful. Kids don’t know whether to choose sports as a career in their early childhood. However, through actual sports activities, either for recreation or matches on campus, they grow some interest in sports and pursue their dream sport. After that, they gain confidence from further practicing and playing in more professional games, thus deciding to pick sports as their job.
Without hard work, the success of an athlete won’t last long. Regular practice helps athletes keep their muscle memories. Without it, injuries become inevitable, which would declare their career a sudden death. Also, there may be occasional adjustments to game rules, and rivals’ techniques are constantly evolving. To keep up with such rapid changes, continuous practice is indispensable. Otherwise, an athlete would fall behind soon.
Sole natural ability or talent won’t suffice, since there are various other difficulties which they cannot cope with. Sports is no stable career. It does not bring an ideal job security. Athletes used to have high casualties in Ancient Greece. Nowadays, they also face lots of risks. Injuries are inevitable. Gangs may kidnap them for ransom or competition manipulation. And accidents may occur on frequent sports travels. As their age accumulates, the possibility of losing their job for poor performance increases because of the gradual decline in their strength. Hard work helps them focus on games and eases their worries on instabilities. As a result, they become strong-minded and immune to terrible failures or unwanted yet drastic changes in their life.
A pilot on duty for a commercial airline has to take at least one flight in any 30 days, or a cumbersome bootstrap re-training is required to pick up. Athletes may get various benefits from their natural ability and talent, but to push such gifts to their limits and keep them in a good shape for games needs countless effort and a rather strong heart. Throughout the fast-paced success story of an athlete, practice and hard work are never absent.
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement Practice and hard work are more important to an athlete s success than natural ability and talent Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 90
- People today are much better informed about international news than they were in the past 76
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement Practice and hard work are more important to an athlete s success than natural ability and talent Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 76
- People today are much better informed about international news than they were in the past 90
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement Practice and hard work are more important to an athlete s success than natural ability and talent Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 90
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, so, thus, as to, at least, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 15.1003584229 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 13.8261648746 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 11.0286738351 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 32.0 43.0788530466 74% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 52.1666666667 111% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2241.0 1977.66487455 113% => OK
No of words: 433.0 407.700716846 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.17551963048 4.8611393121 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56165014514 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62965454351 2.67179642975 98% => OK
Unique words: 260.0 212.727598566 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.600461893764 0.524837075471 114% => OK
syllable_count: 665.1 618.680645161 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.94265232975 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.6003584229 136% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.1344086022 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.7209816525 48.9658058833 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 80.0357142857 100.406767564 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.4642857143 20.6045352989 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.39285714286 5.45110844103 44% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.85842293907 181% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.158242096915 0.236089414692 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0498986706858 0.076458572812 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0657935443391 0.0737576698707 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.10331521665 0.150856017488 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0352165169704 0.0645574589148 55% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 11.7677419355 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 58.1214874552 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 10.1575268817 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 10.9000537634 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.72 8.01818996416 109% => OK
difficult_words: 119.0 86.8835125448 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.0537634409 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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