This material addresses the question of the consequences of selling fossils to private collectors. The reading passage suggests that it does more harm than good. The lecturer, on the other hand, refutes this information by stating that generally private collectors' have a positive impact.
To begin with, the reading passage highlights that private persons prevent fossils from being exposed to the public since, instead of museums, they are kept in private collections. Meanwhile, the professor casts doubt on this and argues that commercial fossil trade makes fossils more available to public inasmuch it involves a lot of people and institutions in the process of search of that precious remains. This, in turn, increases the chances of public to get access to the items under consideration.
Additionally, the article posits that rich private collectors outcompete public subjects from the ownership of fossils, a fact that limits their availability for scientists. However, the professor advocates a different approach and provides the following details. Namely, she mentions that scholars are the first people who examine the items in any case since even private collectors need their expertise to identify the fossils. As a result, the fossils become familiar to the scientific community.
Finally, the author invites attention to the fact that private collectors are unaware of the peculiarities of fossils so that they can harm them while excavating. Furthermore, they can destroy important data, for example, relating to the location or surroundings of the fossil. This goes counter to the information in the listening passage, according to which, without commercial elements many fossils will remain undiscovered which is obviously worse.
- TPO 33: CARVED STONE BALLSReading:Carved stone balls are a curious type of artifact found at a number of locations in Scotland. They date from the late Neolithic period, around 4,000 years ago. They are round in shape; they were carved from several types 81
- TOEFL T P O 32 - Integrated Writing Task 3
- Television advertising directed toward young children should not be allowed 76
- Successful people try new things and take risks rather than only doing what they know how to do well. 60
- It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts. 76
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, furthermore, however, if, so, while, for example, as a result, in any case, to begin with, on the other hand
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: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1492.0 1373.03311258 109% => OK
No of words: 267.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.58801498127 5.08290768461 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04229324003 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88237228142 2.5805825403 112% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.602996254682 0.540411800872 112% => OK
syllable_count: 456.3 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.5220623278 49.2860985944 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.769230769 110.228320801 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5384615385 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.53846153846 7.06452816374 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.41976909529 0.272083759551 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.134157751975 0.0996497079465 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0799240999065 0.0662205650399 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.240323682105 0.162205337803 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0602904067491 0.0443174109184 136% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 13.3589403974 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 53.8541721854 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.14 12.2367328918 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.66 8.42419426049 115% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 63.6247240618 134% => 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: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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