coal ash
The listening lecture totally opposes to the reading passage in whether government should create strict rules for handling coal ash. To begin with, the reading says that power company point out that effective environmental regulations already exist. However, the listening argues that the environmental regulations we have are not sufficient. For example, some harmful chemical had leaked to the groundwater and pollute human's drinking water. As a result, this can cause extremely harmful effect to people. Indeed, the government should definitely set up strict laws for handling coal ash.
In addition, the reading implies that government create strict rules might discourage the recycling of coal ash into other product. On the other hand, the listening suggests that this is not likely to be true. The government had create some rules to other harmful chemicals, but it still successfully recycle for about 50 years. Therefore, people will not be afraid to buy recycle product even though there are strict rules.
Last but not least, the reading asserts that the strict rules will cause significant increase in disposal and handling costs for the power companies. However, the listening indicates that it is true that it will cause a lot of money, but it will be worth it in the future. The cost of a company of implementing these rules will cause about 15 million dollars. It might sounds a lot, but if we calculated, it will increase the average customer household electricity in about 1 percent. That is not a expensive price to pay for a clean environment. In other words, it may cause some money, but it is well worth it.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 324, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'been'.
Suggestion: been
...t the environmental regulations we have are not sufficient. For example, some harmf...
^^^
Line 3, column 230, Rule ID: HAD_VBP[1]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'created'.
Suggestion: created
...t likely to be true. The government had create some rules to other harmful chemicals, ...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 230, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'created'.
Suggestion: created
...t likely to be true. The government had create some rules to other harmful chemicals, ...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 498, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...tricity in about 1 percent. That is not a expensive price to pay for a clean envi...
^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, so, still, therefore, well, for example, in addition, as a result, in other words, it is true, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 5.04856512141 238% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1366.0 1373.03311258 99% => OK
No of words: 270.0 270.72406181 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05925925926 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05360046442 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67482291762 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 140.0 145.348785872 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.518518518519 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 416.7 419.366225166 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 26.5412414932 49.2860985944 54% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 85.375 110.228320801 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.875 21.698381199 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.375 7.06452816374 133% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 4.33554083885 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => 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: 0.144055000342 0.272083759551 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0519824395922 0.0996497079465 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.108513927685 0.0662205650399 164% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108059426288 0.162205337803 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0845487510562 0.0443174109184 191% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.3589403974 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 53.8541721854 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.77 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.82 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 63.6247240618 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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