TPO 64
Broccoli is a vegetable that is popular throughout the United States, but it can be grown only in temperate climates with mild summers. Because of this limitation, 90 percent of the broccoli consumed in the United States is grown in the cooler regions of California, on the West Coast. It must be shipped 4,000 kilometers across the entire country to reach the populous East Coast. This situation may soon change, however: scientists are attempting to create a new type of broccoli that can be grown on the East Coast despite the hotter summers there. This project has several potential benefits. First, growing broccoli on the East Coast and distributing it to nearby grocery stores would lower broccoli costs for consumers. Transporting the vegetable from California by truck takes several days, which makes transportation costs high. Growing broccoli locally would reduce transportation costs, so stores could sell broccoli for less money. Second, the new type of broccoli will probably be much more desirable to consumers than some other new crops. The new broccoli is being created using traditional breeding techniques: researchers are crossbreeding broccoli with other similar plants that have desirable characteristics, such as resistance to hot summers. Other new crops—varieties of squash or maize, for example—were created using genetic modification technology. Genetically modified crops are very controversial: many consumers believe they are unsafe and so reject them. However, the new broccoli will not be in that category. Third, vegetables are healthiest to eat right after they are harvested because they retain most of their beneficial nutrients and vitamins. The longer it takes for a vegetable like broccoli to reach consumers, the fewer nutrients and vitamins it contains. Broccoli that is grown locally can be eaten much sooner after it is cut, which will make this new broccoli healthier for East Coast residents than California broccoli.
Both the reading and the listening discuss about the necessity to develop the new type of broccoli in the East Coast in spite of the hotter summer there. The article presents three advantages of this project, while the professor in the listening thinks this program might not be as successful or beneficial as the article suggests.
Firstly, in the passage, it is proposed that cultivating local broccoli will reduce the transportation cost, so the stores can gain more profits. However, the professor states that even though raising local broccoli do reduce the cost, but not necessarily makes the broccoli cheaper. To be more specific, growing local broccoli in East Coast will lower the yield that grow in West Coast, which leads to less production and the stores would sell on a higher price that cancel out the saving on transportation.
Secondly, the passage asserts that the new broccoli would attract the costumers more because they use cross breeding techniques which enable broccoli have favored features, rather that the maize which use genetic modification. But the speaker claims the buyers would still be suspicious about it because the new broccoli is produced by the same company as maize. So the consumers distrust the any project carried on by the same company.
Thirdly, the passage says eating the vegetable right after harvested will save the most healthy components. But the professor does not think it could be an argument for developing new broccoli in East Coast. For the reason that other vegetables already healthy enough for locals to eat. Like one leafy vegetables in East Coast, they are not only grow in summer, but also fresh enough. So the company can not educate people whey they are eating healthy vegetables already.
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- TPO 64 Broccoli is a vegetable that is popular throughout the United States but it can be grown only in temperate climates with mild summers Because of this limitation 90 percent of the broccoli consumed in the United States is grown in the cooler regions 80
- Directions You have 20 minutes to plan and write your response Your response will be judged on the basis of the quality of your writing and on how well your response presents the points in the lecture and their relationship to the reading passage Typicall 3
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 252, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...the reason that other vegetables already healthy enough for locals to eat. Like o...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, still, third, thirdly, while, in spite of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1469.0 1373.03311258 107% => OK
No of words: 289.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0830449827 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12310562562 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52538269179 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.560553633218 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 450.0 419.366225166 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.23620309051 49% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.0500288017 49.2860985944 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.0 110.228320801 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2307692308 21.698381199 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.92307692308 7.06452816374 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
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: 0.550764086308 0.272083759551 202% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.176271786211 0.0996497079465 177% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.082034111935 0.0662205650399 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.301887326934 0.162205337803 186% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.060749805853 0.0443174109184 137% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.3589403974 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => 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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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.