Did bees (a type of insect) exist on Earth as early as 200 million years ago? Such a theory is supported by the discovery of very old fossil structures that resemble bee nests. The structures have been found inside 200- million-year-old fossilized trees i

The reading and the listening are about a structure found at Arizona in the southwestern United States, and some believe that this structure was a bee nest. However, the writer of the reading provides some theories to put it in a question is it really a bee nest or other organism and provides some assumption to prove it false. On the other hand, the lecturer counters all of the assumption made in the reading and she gives some theory to certify it as a bee nest.

First of all, the reading claims that as no other bee-fossils had been found more than 100 million years, so this must be other organism's fossil. The professor, however, refutes this point by providing some information. He says that to fossilize bees nests some kind of chemically produced by trees needed and this did not happen that time. Therefore, nests older than 100 years were missing from the world.

Secondly, "since there were no flowering trees grow at that time, so bees would be there", the writer assumes this assumption. On the other hand, the professor believes that bees might depend on trees but not on the flowering trees as they do nowadays. There might be a different kind of trees like fern and bees were depended on them up to the time when flowering trees come in the world. Since then, bees rely on them.

Finally, the reading avers that as there are some differences between that structure and today's bees nest, these structures were created by other organisms. The lecturer refutes this point, and he claims that there are many similarities between those structures and today. He says that the chemical which is used to the nest to protect from water was present on that fossil as well. As a result, it's obvious that those fossilized structures were made by bees.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 371, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...n the other hand, the lecturer counters all of the assumption made in the reading and she ...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 129, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'organisms'' or 'organism's'?
Suggestion: organisms'; organism's
...00 million years, so this must be other organisms fossil. The professor, however, refutes...
^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, really, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, well, kind of, as a result, first of all, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1471.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 309.0 270.72406181 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.76051779935 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1926597562 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47377082767 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.498381877023 0.540411800872 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 445.5 419.366225166 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.1146807528 49.2860985944 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.0666666667 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.33333333333 7.06452816374 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.210428820782 0.272083759551 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0790097446737 0.0996497079465 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0429122770555 0.0662205650399 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132956026639 0.162205337803 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0285021921515 0.0443174109184 64% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 68.1 53.8541721854 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.33 12.2367328918 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.49 8.42419426049 89% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 63.6247240618 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => 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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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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