The reading passage and the lecture are both about the existence of bees as early as 200 years ago. In the reading passage, the author describes the views of critics, who cast doubt on the evidence provided by the result of the fossil structure study. They provide three possible explanations for their doubt on the existence of the bees at an early age. However, the lecturer challenges the claims made by critics. The lecturer is of the opinion that it is possible to exist bees at an early age.
First of all, the author says that there are no actual fossils of actual bees. In the article, it is mentioned that fossils of bees were found which were only 100 million years old. The lecturer challenged this argument. He says that it might be possible that bees existed as early as 200 million years old, but at that time there were no specific trees producing resins that can be used to preserve actual bees. He additionally says that due to the lack of preserving chemicals at an early age, fossils of actual bees were not found, but later due to the availability of the trees producing resins, bees were preserved.
Secondly, the writer suggests that there was no flowering plant at that time, so bees are evolved later. In the article, it is mentioned that bees have a special relationship with the flowering plant so they must evolve together. Since flowering plants was reported to evolve later, bees must also evolve later. This point is rebutted by the lecturer. He points out that bees were evolved as early age 200 million years old and ate other nonflowering plants. He mentions that later flowering plants developed and they might change their feeding habit.
Thirdly, the author posits that the structure found in the fossils record lacks some details such as a spiral pattern as found in the modern bees. In contrast, the lecturer says that through the chemical analysis of the substance, it is clear that the composition of materials found in fossils and that of substance produced by modern bees is the same.
- TOEFL Sample essay integrated essay from TPO6
- Integrated writing TPO40 65
- Rembrandt s painting 68
- Burning coal in power plants produces a waste product called coal ash a material that contains small amounts of potentially harmful chemicals Environmentalists in the United States are concerned about the damage such harmful chemicals may be doing to the 3
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is better to use printed materials such as books and articles to do research than it is to use the Internet Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 70
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, in contrast, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 10.4613686534 191% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 43.0 30.3222958057 142% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1677.0 1373.03311258 122% => OK
No of words: 353.0 270.72406181 130% => OK
Chars per words: 4.7507082153 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33454660006 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40806531876 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.456090651558 0.540411800872 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 511.2 419.366225166 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 3.25607064018 276% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.5459631972 49.2860985944 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.1666666667 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6111111111 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.72222222222 7.06452816374 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.105748253379 0.272083759551 39% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0413790387411 0.0996497079465 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0261518879597 0.0662205650399 39% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0629439459763 0.162205337803 39% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0253166245882 0.0443174109184 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 13.3589403974 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 53.8541721854 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 11.0289183223 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.27 12.2367328918 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.8 8.42419426049 93% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
---------------------
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.