英语四级改错精练(12)
in November, 1800, work was still going on, although the main
live area was completed. The whole work did not finish until the 7.________
administration of the 3rd president, Thomas Jefferson.
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There are great many reasons for studying what philosophers 1.________
have said in the past. One is that we cannot separate the
history of philosophy from which of science. Philosophy is 2.________
large discussion about matters on which few people are quite 3.________
certain, and those few hold opposite opinions. As knowledge
increases, philosophy buds off the sciences.
For an example, in the ancient world and the Middle Ages 4.________
philosophers discussed motion. Aristotle and St. Thomas
Aquinas taught that a moving body would slow down until a force 5.________
were constantly applied to it. They were wrong. It goes on moving
unless something slows it down. But they had good arguments on
their side, and if we study these, and the experiments
which proved them right this will help us to distinguish truth 6.________
from false in the scientific controversies of today. 7.________
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Aphrodite loved Adonis more than she did to heaven, for 1.________
He was a brisk, lovely young hunter. She abandoned her residence
at Olympus and took to the woods, where she dressed
herself up like a huntress and kept the youth companion all day 2.________
long. With him she roved through bushy grounds and groves and
over hills and dales, cheering hounds and pursuing game of a
harmless sort. They had a great time together. However, she
warned him many times to chase wild beasts like lions and 3.________
wolves, but the young man just laughed at the idea.
One day, after warning him thus, she left to Olympus in 4.________
her chariot. Quite by chance Adonis' hounds found a boar, that 5.________
roused Adonis to enthusiasm. He hit the beast with a dart, and 6.________
the boar, turning on him ,buried its white tusk deep into his
tender side and trampled him to death.
When Aphrodite came back to find her lover cold in death,
she burst into a passion of tears. Unable to wrest him back from
the low world, she sprinkled nectar on Adonis' blood and 7.________
turned it into anemone, a delicate purple flower.
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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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