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
The passage and the article are both talking about Amtrak, and the reading states that government should sell Armtrak to privately-owned company. The author provides three reasons of supports, however, The professor casts doubt on all three points.
First of all, the reading claims that US government loses money by spending its budget on Armtrak routes in the remote and less populated areas, so there are no enough passengers to cover the costs. Nevertheless, this point challenged by professor. She states that Armtrak is a way that government provides for needed people in the country, and the all people in the country have the same rights. Thus, the governments do not want to have a profit from Armtrak.
Second, The passage claims that this is unfair to private companies that government budget spend on Armtrak. In contract, the professors mentions that government support all airlines by paying for equipment and wether satellite. she says that without government funding and support, private companies couldn't exist.
Thirdly, the author claims that rail travel is unimportant, and government should spend money elswhere because currently 1 percent of people travel by Armtrak. Nonethless, The professor rebbuted this point by saying that The reason people do not use rail travel is US rail facilities are out dated. If govenment provide fast train and improve the rail travel like Japan and Euorpe, people will use rail routes.
In sum, all reasons provided in the reading rejected by the professor.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 230, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: She
...ing for equipment and wether satellite. she says that without government funding an...
^^^
Line 5, column 302, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: couldn't
... funding and support, private companies couldnt exist. Thirdly, the author claims t...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, nevertheless, second, so, third, thirdly, thus, talking about, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1280.0 1373.03311258 93% => OK
No of words: 243.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26748971193 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94822203886 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6107535581 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 131.0 145.348785872 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.539094650206 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 367.2 419.366225166 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.526271704 49.2860985944 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.4615384615 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6923076923 21.698381199 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.69230769231 7.06452816374 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => 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: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.160599895869 0.272083759551 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0619206846063 0.0996497079465 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.079070938622 0.0662205650399 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0897651810782 0.162205337803 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.070976310872 0.0443174109184 160% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.36 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 230, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: She
...ing for equipment and wether satellite. she says that without government funding an...
^^^
Line 5, column 302, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: couldn't
... funding and support, private companies couldnt exist. Thirdly, the author claims t...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, nevertheless, second, so, third, thirdly, thus, talking about, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1280.0 1373.03311258 93% => OK
No of words: 243.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26748971193 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94822203886 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6107535581 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 131.0 145.348785872 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.539094650206 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 367.2 419.366225166 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.526271704 49.2860985944 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.4615384615 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6923076923 21.698381199 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.69230769231 7.06452816374 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => 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: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.160599895869 0.272083759551 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0619206846063 0.0996497079465 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.079070938622 0.0662205650399 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0897651810782 0.162205337803 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.070976310872 0.0443174109184 160% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.36 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => 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.