英语四级改错练习题第011组
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Word came from California of a new weapon in the war on household pests.Two scientists work for a firm in California developed 1.__________
a new method to eliminate insects with using dangerous chemicals.The new 2.__________
weapon—hot air.The basic idea is that insect pests can adjust to temperature much above 3.__________
normal. In laboratory experiments,cockroaches and termites can’t survive much more than a quarter of hour at 100 degrees 4.__________
Fahrenheit or about fifty degrees centigrade. The new method involves covering a house with a huge tent,and fill it with air heated to 5.__________
around 65 degrees centigrade.Hot air is forced in with fans and the tent keeps the heat inside the house.Although termites try to escape by 6.__________
hiding in wood beams,the heat treatment must be continued by four to six hours.But when it s 7.__________
all over and the insects are dead, there are no toxic residues to danger humans or pets,and no 8.__________
funny smells.Scientists claim that there s no danger of fire too. 9.__________
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