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  3. DDT, the most powerful pesticide the world had ever known, exposed nature’s vulnerability. Unlike most pesticides, which effecti

DDT, the most powerful pesticide the world had ever known, exposed nature’s vulnerability. Unlike most pesticides, which effecti

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问题     DDT, the most powerful pesticide the world had ever known, exposed
nature’s vulnerability. Unlike most pesticides, which effectiveness is limited (1)______
to destroy one or two types of insects, DDT was capable of killing hun- (2)______
dreds of different kinds at once. Developed in 1939, it first distinguished
itself during World War II, cleaning South Pacific islands of malaria- (3)______
caused insects for U.S. troops, while in Europe being used as an effective (4)______
de-lousing powder. Its inventor was awarded by the Nobel Prize. (5)______
    When DDT became available for civilian use in 1945, there were only
a few people who expressed the second thoughts about this new miracle (6)______
compound. One was nature writer Edwin Way Teale, who warned, "A spray
as discriminate as DDT can upset the economy of nature as much as a revo- (7)______
lution upsets social economy. Ninety percent of all insects are good, but if (8)______
they are killed, things go out of kilter right away." Another was Rachel Car
son, who wrote to the Reader’s Digest to propose an article about series of (9)______
tests on DDT being conducted not far from which she lived in Maryland. (10)______
The magazine rejected the idea.
(3)
选项
答案cleaning — clearing
解析 clean和clear这对形近且意近的动词容易被混淆，但clean指“使某地方没有灰尘，使……干净”，而clear强调“清理不需要的东西”，而且clear可与of连用，而clean则很少，因此应选用clear。再举一例：Workers could not clear the tunnels of smoke．
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