In recent years, many frog species around the world have declined in numbers or even gone extinct due to changes in their environment. These population declines and extinctions have serious consequences for the ecosystems in which frogs live; for example, frogs help play a role in protecting humans by eating disease-carrying insects. Several methods have been proposed to solve the problem of declining frog populations.
First, frogs are being harmed by pesticides, which are chemicals used to prevent insects from damaging farm crops such as corn and sugarcane. Pesticides often spread from farmland into neighboring frog habitats. Once pesticides enter a frog’s body, they attack the nervous system, leading to severe breathing problems. If laws prohibited the farmers from using harmful pesticides near sensitive frog populations, it would significantly reduce the harm pesticides cause to frogs.
A second major factor in frog population decline is a fungus that has spread around the world with deadly effect. The fungus causes thickening of the skin, and since frogs use their skin to absorb water, infected frogs die of dehydration. Recently, researchers have discovered several ways to treat or prevent infection, including antifungal medication and treatments that kill the fungus with heat. Those treatments, if applied on a large scale, would protect sensitive frog populations from infection.
Third, in a great many cases, frog populations are in decline simply because their natural habitats are threatened. Since most frog species lay their eggs in water, they are dependent on water and wetland habitats. Many such habitats are threatened by human activities, including excessive water use or the draining of wetlands to make them suitable for development. If key water habitats such as lakes and marshes were better protected from excessive water use and development, many frog species would recover.
In the reading passage, the author proposes three methods to solve the problem of declining frog populations. The lecturer, however, totally disagrees with these statements with three strong arguments.
First of all, the reading claims that passing laws to prohibit farmers from using detrimental pesticides would significantly reduce the harm they cause to frogs. However, the professor believe that this statement is not practical. She points out that farmers who do not use pesticides would lose competition when comparing to those who use them. Moreover, if farmers are prohibited to use pesticides, the number of crops would certainly decline, which makes farmers less profitable.
Secondly, the reading asserts that by applying some treatments that kill the fungus with heat would help to solve the problem of declining frog populations. Nevertheless, the professor explains that on the one hand, it is difficult for people to cure the infected frogs individually just by the medication and treatments. On the other hand, even though these treatments are applied to those infected frogs, their offspring are still likely to get infected, that means treatments need to be applied again and again, however, this task is complex and the cost is high.
Finally, the professor states that what makes the population of frogs decline is the global warming, but not because their natural habitats are threatened. Thus, she argues that by protecting the habitats such as lakes and marshes, the population would not be recovered.
In sum, according to the discussion above, the professor firmly disagrees with the methods revealed in the reading passage.
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- In recent years, many frog species around the world have declined in numbers or even gone extinct due to changes in their environment. These population declines and extinctions have serious consequences for the ecosystems in which frogs live; for example, 78
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Teachers were more appreciated and valued by society in the past than they are nowadays.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 90
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Life today is easier and more comfortable than it was when your grandparents were children.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 76
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, moreover, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, still, thus, such as, first of all, 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 : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1412.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 259.0 270.72406181 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.45173745174 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01166760082 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73798264207 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.57528957529 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 413.1 419.366225166 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.1550016414 49.2860985944 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.666666667 110.228320801 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5833333333 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.0833333333 7.06452816374 157% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 4.45695364238 224% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.124315815483 0.272083759551 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0454140410231 0.0996497079465 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0457839379576 0.0662205650399 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0646963101103 0.162205337803 40% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0473267051884 0.0443174109184 107% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.33 12.2367328918 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.88 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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