The reading holds the point of view that maintaining a human presence on Venus is impossible due to an extreme and inhospitable environment. The reading gives out three reasons to support his idea. However, the listening says that building the state 50 kilometers above the surface can solve the problem. The listening argues against the three reason one by one.
First and foremost, the reading thinks that the pressure on Venus' surface is so high that spacecraft and humans will be crushed. But the listening points out that if the state is located 50 kilometers above the surface, the pressure there is equal to the pressure at Earth's surface. So the pressure won't be a problem.
Secondly, the reading states that there is no water and oxygen on Venus' surface. However, the listening points out that we can use carbon dioxide and other chemicals in Venus' atmosphere to make water and oxygen. Since these chemicals are quite common in Venus' atmosphere, it is unnecessary for us to transport water and oxygen from Earth to Venus.
Last but not least, the reading says that sunlight is very limited on Venus' surface because much sunlight is reflected by dense clouds. So it will be hard to make electricity by using solar power cells. But the listening states that if we build the state 50 kilometers above the surface, the power cell can receive sunlight which directly gets through the cloud above and reflected from the cloud below. Moreover, clouds above 50 kilometers are not very dense. In a nutshell, if we build the state 50 kilometers above the surface, we can make electricity on a large scale.
In a nutshell, the listening proposes the hypothesis that we can build the state 50 kilometers above Venus' surface. Then he explains that by doing that, the three problems with pressure, water and electricity can be solved.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, then
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1532.0 1373.03311258 112% => OK
No of words: 312.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.91025641026 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20279927342 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54650209357 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 145.348785872 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.451923076923 0.540411800872 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 480.6 419.366225166 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.9440226738 49.2860985944 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.1176470588 110.228320801 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.3529411765 21.698381199 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.58823529412 7.06452816374 51% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.126987761308 0.272083759551 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0519490374902 0.0996497079465 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0713503920251 0.0662205650399 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0798593430245 0.162205337803 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0399737713808 0.0443174109184 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 13.3589403974 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
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: 11.2 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.16 8.42419426049 85% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 63.6247240618 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => 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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