Ethanol fuel, made from plants such as corn and sugar cane, has been advocated by some people as an alternative to gasoline in the United States. However, many critics argue that ethanol is not a good replacement for gasoline for several reasons.
First, the increased use of ethanol fuel would not help tosolve one of the biggest environmental problems caused by gasoline use: global warming. Like gasoline, ethanol releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere when it is burned for fuel and carbon dioxide is greenhouse gas: it helps trap heat in the atmosphere. Thus, ethanol offers no environmental advantage over gasoline.
Second, the production of significant amounts of ethanol would dramatically reduce the amount of plants available for uses other fuel. For example, much of the corn now grown in the United States is used to feed farm animals such as cows and chickens. It is estimated that if ethanol were used to satisfy just 10 percent of the fuel needs in the United States, more than 60 percent of the corn currently grown in the united stated would have to be used to produce ethanol. If most of the corn were used to produce ethanol, a substantial source of food for animals would disappear.
Third, ethanol fuel will never be able to compete with gasoline on price. Although the prices of ethanol and gasoline for the consumer are currently about the same, this is only because of the help in the form of tax subsidies given to ethanol producers by the United States government. These tax subsidies have cost the United States government over $11 billion in the past 30 years. If the United States government were to stop helping producers in this way, the price of ethanol would increase greatly.
The reading and listening materials have a conflict over the ethanol as fuel.
The author believes that ethanol is not a good alternative to the gasoline and provides three reasons of support. However, the following speaker refutes each of the author's arguments.
First, the author explains that ethanol has the same effect on the environment as the gasoline. They both release carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that traps heat in the atmosphere. Thus have no environmental advantage over gasoline. The speaker refutes this point by explaining the process of producing ethanol. According to the speaker, Ethanol is made of plants like corn or sugar cane which use the carbon dioxide as nutrition as result the process of making ethanol counteracts the release of carbon dioxide.
Second, the author argues that the creation of enough ethanol to cover the 10percent of America fuel takes roughly 60 percent of the corn currently grown in the Us. These corns are a substantial source of animal food thus creating ethanol will result in an animal food shortage. However, the speaker explains that in order to make the ethanol we only need the cellulose parts of plants. Animals don't eat cellulose and can't even digest it. Due to this point, the made argument is not valid.
Lastly, the author mentions that ethanol price can't ever compete with gasoline if the government stops subsidies for the fact that ethanol production is costly. The professor opposes this point by saying that with more customers production price will decrease noticeably to the point that competes with the current gasoline price.
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Suggestion: can't; cannot
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, lastly, second, so, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1349.0 1373.03311258 98% => OK
No of words: 262.0 270.72406181 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14885496183 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.02323427807 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5281729394 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.568702290076 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 418.5 419.366225166 100% => 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: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 64.0295292209 49.2860985944 130% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.3571428571 110.228320801 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7142857143 21.698381199 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.14285714286 7.06452816374 44% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.252710824846 0.272083759551 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0780384104643 0.0996497079465 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0638184090842 0.0662205650399 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130358678998 0.162205337803 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0199310330673 0.0443174109184 45% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.59 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.45 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 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.