文意選填 (請忽略大小寫) 20% 每題2分    A Dutch businessman and inventor has made a new product that could make it possible to 1._____ large areas of desert with trees. The device, called the “Water Boxx,” provides trees with enough water to grow in climates that 2.____very little rain. In experiments in the Sahara Desert, 90 percent of the trees planted with a Water Boxx 3.____alive after a few months in the extreme heat, 4.____90 percent of the trees planted without the Water Boxx died, although they had been watered often.    The Water Boxx looks like a plastic, rectangular-shaped bucket. It has a hole in the center which allows the young tree 5.____ be planted in the soil. The top of the Water Boxx catches water from condensation at night, 6.____whatever small amount of rain falls. The water is gradually distributed to the tree inside. The Water Boxx also 7._____ the roots against sun, wind, and animals. After a year the tree is 8.____ enough to grow by itself and the Water Boxx is removed.     Pieter Hoff, the inventor of the Water Boxx, points out that trees can grow in dry areas, but their seeds are 9.____ able to take root. 10.____ is at the beginning of the growth process that they most need help from the Water Boxx.  
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