Because of climate change, more and more land that was once used to grow crops or provide food for animals is turning to dry, unusable desert land. There are many proposals about how to stop this process, known as desertification. A number of proposals involve growing trees, because trees can help protect soil and provide many other benefits to fight against desertification. Some scientists have proposed that the best way to grow trees in dry areas in danger of desertification is by using a box-shaped device surrounding the young tree. The device collects water that condenses from vapor in the atmosphere and helps the tree to grow. However, other scientists believe that this device will not be successful in fighting against desertification for the following reasons.
First, at a cost of 25 U S. dollars each, the device would make growing trees a prohibitively expensive process. Meaningful efforts to fight desertification involve growing millions of trees. Some countries most affected by desertification cannot afford to buy devices for millions of trees
Second, plans for fighting desertification involve asking local people to install and maintain the devices. People living in some of the areas most affected by desertification work long days in harsh conditions: sometimes barely managing to provide food for their families. It would be difficult to motivate these people to look after trees that cannot serve as a source of food for them.
Third, the device's ability to collect and conserve water is limited. Each one provides only enough water to keep a small tree alive. Trees that have outgrown the device have to deal with unforgiving environmental conditions on their own. In some places where the devices are being tried, six months can pass without a drop of rain. Once the trees become too big for the device, they may not be able to survive in such a harsh environment.
The passage provides information regarding a device which aids trees to grow up in the desert lands. The professor presents points which contradict with the points mentioned in the passage. These contradiction will be elaborated in the following paragraphs.
Firstly, according to the passage using this device would charge the governments or other related organizations a huge amount of money. However, the professor illustrates that each device could be used for more than 20 young trees, as a result of which the cost for each tree would not be so much.
Secondly, as it is stated in the passage the program of desertification by means of the mentiond device would engage people who live there with the process of installing and maintaining the device in order to growing trees that would not have any benefit such as food and fruits for them. On the contrary, based on the information from the listening, the device is able to help irrigating other plants like vegetables, so it can motivate inhabitants to try maintaining these devices.
Last but not least, the reading passage notes that the capacity and power to collect water is limited in those devices and that would lead to failure in addressing the problem of lacking precipitation in dry areas, especially for huge trees. The lecturer, however, says that it is not true and based on the statistics 90% of trees would survive even 2 years after removing the device. Furthermore, when the trees grow adequately their roots move too deep and lie under the dry surface.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 191, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this contradiction' or 'These contradictions'?
Suggestion: This contradiction; These contradictions
...th the points mentioned in the passage. These contradiction will be elaborated in the following par...
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Line 5, column 379, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[5]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to irrigate' or 'irrigate'.
Suggestion: to irrigate; irrigate
...e listening, the device is able to help irrigating other plants like vegetables, so it can...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, regarding, second, secondly, so, such as, as a result, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1281.0 1373.03311258 93% => OK
No of words: 257.0 270.72406181 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.98443579767 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00390054096 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74535610091 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.591439688716 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 393.3 419.366225166 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.363491596 49.2860985944 137% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.1 110.228320801 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.7 21.698381199 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.7 7.06452816374 166% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0811358425745 0.272083759551 30% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0307269811814 0.0996497079465 31% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0319180986466 0.0662205650399 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0503348388466 0.162205337803 31% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.024778742454 0.0443174109184 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.9 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.75 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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