The Salton Sea in California is actually a salty inland lake. The level of salt in the lake's water-what scientists call its salinity-has been increasing steadily for years because the lake's water is evaporating faster than it is being replaced by rainfall or rivers. If the trend continues, the lake's water will soon become so salty that the lake will be unable to support fish and bird populations. The lake would then become essentially a dead zone. Fortunately, there are several ways to reverse the trend that is threatening the lake's health.
One option is direct removal of salt from the lake's water in special desalination facilities. Water from the lake would be pumped into the facilities and heated. This would cause the water to evaporate into steam, while salt and other materials dissolved in the water would be left behind. The steam would then be cooled down and returned to the lake as salt-free water. Gradually, the high salt levels would be reduced and the lake's overall health would be restored.
Another possible solution is to dilute the salt level in the lake with water from the ocean. Since water in the Pacific Ocean is 20 percent less salty than water in the lake, bringing ocean water into the lake would decrease the lake's salinity. The ocean water could be delivered through pipelines or canals.
Yet another solution would be to control the lake's salinity by constructing walls to divide the lake into several sections. In the smaller sections, salinity would be allowed to increase. However, in the main and largest section, salinity would be reduced and controlled by, among other things, directing all the freshwater from small rivers in the area to flow into that main section of the lake.
The reading presents three possible solutions to reduce salt level of lake. However, lecture refutes these mentioned solutions by presenting their drawbacks.
First of all, the author states that lake water can be made free from salt in special desalination facilities. In these facilities water is evaporated by heating and salt with other materials are left behind. While, lecturer says that surely it will remove salt but the collected salt and materials can cause serious health issues. Selenium is also present in it which can rise breath problems among local people. Thus, lecture rejects this solution.
Secondly, the passage argues on another possible solution that Pacific Ocean has much less salt level in its water as compared to lake. Thus, by adding this water to lake, we can reduce salinity of lake. Whereas, lecturer position on this point is that Ocean is 100Km away from lake which is a great distance and local government will not be able to bear its expenses.
Lastly, reading points out that lake's salinity can be controlled by dividing lake into sections with the help of walls. Salt level will be allowed in smaller section, while largest section will be in control for freshwater. In contrast, lecture opposes this opinion by claiming that this area may suffer from natural disasters like earthquake. The geological location of lake is highly under threat of frequent earthquakes. So, these walls will fall down by these activities. In this way, reading and lecture presents opposite views on this matter.
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Suggestion: while the largest
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, thus, whereas, while, in contrast, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1298.0 1373.03311258 95% => OK
No of words: 250.0 270.72406181 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.192 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.97635364384 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.42988394785 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.608 0.540411800872 113% => OK
syllable_count: 394.2 419.366225166 94% => 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: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 31.9256338034 49.2860985944 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 81.125 110.228320801 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.625 21.698381199 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0625 7.06452816374 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => 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: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.243030484457 0.272083759551 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0863883700132 0.0996497079465 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0821301058185 0.0662205650399 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.159059876902 0.162205337803 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0661281020546 0.0443174109184 149% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.3589403974 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 53.8541721854 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.8 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 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.