strange sounds, which were being heard by Soviet submarines' crews in the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean for nearly twenty years, until the 1980s.
This material addresses the question of stange sounds, which were being heard by Soviet submarines' crews in the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean for nearly twenty years, until the 1980s. The reading passage presents the approaches that try to explain the origin of the mentioned sounds. The lecture, on the other hand, refutes this information by stating the professor's opinion about this arguable issue, which is denying all the explanations provided in the article.
To begin with, the reading passage highlights that odd noises might originate from orca whales, which live in the corresponding areas, and emit sound signals while attracting a partner. Meanwhile, the professor casts doubt on this and argues that whales live near the surface of the Ocean, amd consequently their sounds cannot be heard by crews down in the water. Furthermore, sonars of the submarines would fix whales, which did not happen.
Additionally, the article posits that a huge squid may be the source of the sounds. It is proposed that sonars would not register squids, which approached the boats to find out their origin. However, the professor advocates a different approach and provides the following details. Namely, she metions that squid always lived in the same place, and the fact that sailors do not hear those sounds nowadays proves that squids are not their/its source.
Finally, the author invites attention to the fact that some other submarines may be the cause of disturbance. This goes counter to the information in the listening passage, according to which, there are no such boats that are able to move that much quickly to be heard from various places in a short period of time, and that have silent engines invisisble for Russian submarines' sonars.
- TOEFL T P O 2 Integrated Writing Task 52
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- Students are more influenced by their teachers than by their friends. 66
- Written paragraph:In many organizations, perhaps the best way to approach certain new projects is toassemble a group of people into a team. Having a team of people attack a project offersseveral advantages. First of all, a group of people has a wider rang 80
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 359, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'professors'' or 'professor's'?
Suggestion: professors'; professor's
...refutes this information by stating the professors opinion about this arguable issue, whic...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 411, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...pinion about this arguable issue, which is denying all the explanations provided in the ar...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 300, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...be heard from various places in a short period of time, and that have silent engines invisisbl...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, finally, furthermore, however, if, may, so, while, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1467.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 286.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12937062937 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53096863665 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 145.348785872 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.604895104895 0.540411800872 112% => OK
syllable_count: 433.8 419.366225166 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.4651464416 49.2860985944 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.25 110.228320801 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8333333333 21.698381199 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.08333333333 7.06452816374 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.330032701948 0.272083759551 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.111535926421 0.0996497079465 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.190400752036 0.0662205650399 288% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.186306746934 0.162205337803 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.146847058339 0.0443174109184 331% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.77 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.97 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => 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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