reading passage.题目原文:Hail—pieces of ice that form and fall from clouds instead of snow or rain—has always been a problem for farmers in some areas of the United States. Hail pellets can fall with great force and destroy crops in the field. O

The passage and the talk discuss the effectiveness of cloud seeding in preventing damage to crops caused by formation of hail. The author claims that cloud seeding is an effective technique to prevent hails formation. The lecturer, however, refutes the author's assessment. He demonstrates three reasons to cast doubt on the claims made in the reading

The First allegation of script against which the orator argues is the reduction in crops damage cause by conversion of hail into snow. In contrast, The lecturer highlights the fact that this process surprisingly, has resulted in the reduction of hail as well as the reduction in snow and rain. As a results, instead of crops being destroyed by hail, they have been destroyed by drought.

Second, according to the text, the experience from Asia can exemplify the benefits of cloud seeding in preventing crops damage. Though the speaker finds this idea debatable. He bolster his opinion by stating that the experience from Asia cannot be generalized to other parts of the world. The interaction between silver iodide and pollutants could be the reason behind the success of cloud seeding in Asia.

Finally the lecturer contradicts the fallacy of the passage that cloud seeding was the reason behind the reduction of crops damage in the American study. Again, the lecturer refutes this fact by saying that other factors may have contributed to the success of this study He contends that the reduction in pesticides usage may also have a determinant effect on the results.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 219, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...e technique to prevent hails formation. The lecturer, however, refutes the authors ...
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Line 1, column 254, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...ion. The lecturer, however, refutes the authors assessment. He demonstrates three reaso...
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Line 3, column 298, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a result' or simply 'results'?
Suggestion: a result; results
...l as the reduction in snow and rain. As a results, instead of crops being destroyed by ha...
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Line 5, column 129, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Though” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...oud seeding in preventing crops damage. Though the speaker finds this idea debatable. ...
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Line 5, column 178, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'He' must be used with a third-person verb: 'bolsters'.
Suggestion: bolsters
...e speaker finds this idea debatable. He bolster his opinion by stating that the experie...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Finally,
...e success of cloud seeding in Asia. Finally the lecturer contradicts the fallacy of...
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Line 7, column 271, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...contributed to the success of this study He contends that the reduction in pestic...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, second, so, well, in contrast, as a result, as well as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 30.3222958057 142% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.01324503311 239% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1280.0 1373.03311258 93% => OK
No of words: 250.0 270.72406181 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.12 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.97635364384 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67335295088 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 132.0 145.348785872 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.528 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 380.7 419.366225166 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.2379704387 49.2860985944 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.666666667 110.228320801 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8333333333 21.698381199 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.25 7.06452816374 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.16722274022 0.272083759551 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0663450853079 0.0996497079465 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0602514904569 0.0662205650399 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.101363453268 0.162205337803 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0660122563997 0.0443174109184 149% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.3589403974 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.48 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => 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: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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