The passage brings about three reasons why is it impossible to have a permanent human presence on Venus, and the lecture objects to them as the station could be one floating in the atmosphere, about 50 kilometers high above Venus's ground to avoid these problems.
Firstly, the passage points out that the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater on Venus comparing Earth, thus anything including spacecraft and humans would be crashed. However, the lecture asserts that if the station is floating in the atmosphere for about 50 kilometers high, the pressure there would only be equal to that on earth.
Secondly, the passage mentions that there are not any reservoirs of water and barely any oxygen or water vapor in the atmosphere on Venus, which means these crucial supplies for maintaining life require being transported from Earth, which is impossible. Contrary to this idea, the lecture suggests that although there is not any water or oxygen on Venus, chemical compounds like carbon dioxide and nitrogen could be used to produce them through chemical processes.
Lastly, opposing the passage's idea that there is not enough solar power to produce electricity on Venus, as sunlight would be reflected by the clouds and blocked by the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the lecture suggests that as the station is floating in the atmosphere, it would be capable of obtaining enough solar power from sunlight that both directly hit Venus and reflected by the clouds below.
- TOEFL T P O 20 Integrated Writing Task 3
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- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement To solve the problems of the present and the future people should review the past 76
- Eco certification and American wood companies Integrated Reading Section In an effort to encourage ecologically sustainable forestry practices an international organization started issuing certifications to wood companies that meet high ecological standar 85
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 22, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'passages'' or 'passage's'?
Suggestion: passages'; passage's
...ical processes. Lastly, opposing the passages idea that there is not enough solar pow...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1241.0 1373.03311258 90% => OK
No of words: 242.0 270.72406181 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.12809917355 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94415379849 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55962634836 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 125.0 145.348785872 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.51652892562 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 382.5 419.366225166 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 6.0 13.0662251656 46% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 40.0 21.2450331126 188% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 80.3438789759 49.2860985944 163% => OK
Chars per sentence: 206.833333333 110.228320801 188% => OK
Words per sentence: 40.3333333333 21.698381199 186% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.5 7.06452816374 149% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.232132113474 0.272083759551 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.116305948758 0.0996497079465 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0392834565036 0.0662205650399 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.13772921261 0.162205337803 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0342132138606 0.0443174109184 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 22.9 13.3589403974 171% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.88 53.8541721854 57% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 18.9 11.0289183223 171% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.36 12.2367328918 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.54 8.42419426049 113% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 10.7273730684 168% => OK
gunning_fog: 18.0 10.498013245 171% => OK
text_standard: 18.0 11.2008830022 161% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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