Amtrak is an intercity train service currently owned by the United States government. There are a number of critics who believe that the government should not own Amtrak and that Amtrak should be sold to a privately-owned company. These critics put forward several arguments to support their position.
First, the critics point out that the government loses money on many Amtrak routes. In its effort to serve citizens in all parts of the country, Amtrak maintains routes even in remote and less populated areas. Those routes are not used by enough passengers to cover the cost of maintaining them. The amount of money lost every year due to underuse is sizeable: the government loses up to several hundred dollars per passenger on some routes: and the total losses due to underuse add up to hundreds of millions of dollars every year If Amtrak was privatized, these unprofitable routes could be cut.
Second, government ownership of Amtrak is unfair to privately owned transportation companies such as airlines Government fundi ng of Amtrak means that ticket prices on Amtrak are cheaper than they otherwise would be. However, the government does not give airline companies money so they can lower their ticket prices. This situation clearly is unfair to airlines and other private transportation companies because they must compete against trains for customers.
Third, critics maintain that if the government wants to support national transportation, it should spend its money elsewhere Rail travel is relatively unimportant in the United States: Amtrak currently transports less than 1 percent of the people traveling between cities. A large majority of intercity travelers use other means of transport, such as private cars. The critics argue that rather than finance Amtrak, the government should direct its funding at maintaining and improving the highway system so that intercity car travel becomes faster and more efficient.
The article discusses the topic of Amtrak train service, and bases it's an argument on the fact that the government should sell Amtrak to private players. The professor discusses the article's argument and casts doubts on its validity.
First of all, reading passage states that government loses millions of dollar every year, maintaining the routes in rural and less populated areas. In contrast, the lecturer provides information that the main purpose of Amtrak is to serve the people of the U.S.
People live in such places where transportation is not convenient. Hence, she casts doubts on the idea that unfair because the government provides funding to airlines, traffic control, and weather satellites and they even could not exists.
Furthermore, the reading passage holds the view that by supporting Amtrak, the government makes the situation difficult for other transportation companies to compete and stay in business without receiving any financial support from the government. On the contrary, the professor underlines the fact that the government pays for airlines in different ways such as training the airline control officers and providing satellites which the airlines companies are dependent on that to controls their aeroplanes. As a result, these airline companies are receiving the financial aid of the government and the situation is fair.
Finally, the reading states that train travel is less popular in their country and most people use other means of transportation, so the government should focus and invest more on those projects. The speaker dismisses this issue due to the fact that train travel is not popular among people, because it is out of d ate. If the government invest moe to improve its performance and highten its speed it can be people's prefrence like it is in Europe and Japan.
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- Amtrak is an intercity train service currently owned by the United States government There are a number of critics who believe that the government should not own Amtrak and that Amtrak should be sold to a privately owned company These critics put forward 80
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, furthermore, hence, if, so, in contrast, such as, as a result, first of all, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 5.01324503311 379% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1537.0 1373.03311258 112% => OK
No of words: 292.0 270.72406181 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.26369863014 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13376432452 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76562035341 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.544520547945 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 461.7 419.366225166 110% => 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: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 51.9483214279 49.2860985944 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.727272727 110.228320801 127% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.5454545455 21.698381199 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.81818181818 7.06452816374 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.21306638788 0.272083759551 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0784516222959 0.0996497079465 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0719177205549 0.0662205650399 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109087243165 0.162205337803 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0532042134916 0.0443174109184 120% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 13.3589403974 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 53.8541721854 84% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.93 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 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.