In this set of materials, the reading passage suggests three solutions that can keep birds safe from flying through glass windows and getting harmed. However, the lecturer finds all the idea dubious and skeptical and unlikely to help them and provides some evidence to refute them all.
First of all, the author of the passage claims that people should replace the regular glass with one-way glass that is transparent in only one direction. On the contrary, the professor contends that this kind of glass just reflects the light so acts like a mirror which is as bad as regular glass. Birds cannot understand the difference between reflection and reality so they cannot understand that the reflection of sky or tree is not real and fly right toward them. Therefore, this idea cannot be a logical solution.
Furthermore, it is mentioned in the passage that if people paint colorful lines on regular glass, birds avoid going through the window. Conversely, the lecturer believes that birds see the space between lines like opening holes and go right through them unless the openings are extremely thin which make indoor too dark. Hence, it cannot solve the problem effectively.
Finally, the reading asserts that an artificial magnetic guides birds to stay away from the glass since they have a natural ability to sense Earth’s magnetic fields. In contrast, the lecturer states that birds use this ability only when they travel long distances. For example, when winter comes they migrate from cold area to warm locations. When they go over short distances they use their eyes and the light. Thus, the magnetic glass will not assist birds.
- Pterosaurs were an ancient group of winged reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs. Many pterosaurs were very large, some as large as a giraffe and with a wingspan of over 12 meters. Paleontologists have long wondered whether large pterosaurs were cap 75
- Like many creatures, humpback whales migrate long distances for feeding and mating purposes. How animals manage to migrate long distances is often puzzling. In the case of humpback whales, we may have found the answer: they may be navigating by the stars, 75
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is more enjoyable to have a job where you work only three days a week for long hours than to have a job where you work five days a week for shorter hours 70
- Scientists are considering the possibility of sending humans to Mars in the coming decades. Although there have been successful manned missions to the Moon in the 1960s and 1970s, Mars is 150 times further away from Earth than the Moon is. Thus the projec 3
- TPO26 – Independent: A/D? It is better for children to choose jobs that are similar to their parent's jobs than to choose jobs that very different from their parent's job. 78
Transition Words or Phrases used:
conversely, finally, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, so, therefore, thus, for example, in contrast, kind of, first of all, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1381.0 1373.03311258 101% => OK
No of words: 272.0 270.72406181 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07720588235 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06108636974 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.36302698211 2.5805825403 92% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 145.348785872 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.602941176471 0.540411800872 112% => OK
syllable_count: 406.8 419.366225166 97% => 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: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.0215194109 49.2860985944 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.6428571429 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4285714286 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.4285714286 7.06452816374 148% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.492387579793 0.272083759551 181% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.153314617044 0.0996497079465 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0945771664957 0.0662205650399 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.265141653623 0.162205337803 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0545776818595 0.0443174109184 123% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.18 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.