Answer:
1. plants
2. together
3. is
4. family
5. talking
6. weeds
7. experience
8. planter
9. on
10. fields
11. too
12. method
13. around
14. react.
Explanation:
The given passage talks about the impact of chemicals on the ecosystem. The speaker narrates how the ecology belongs to plants, animals, and humans, though man seemed intent to destroy it for himself.
The blanks in the given passage are filled with the appropriate words as follows-
Ecology is the study of how (1) plants, animals, and people live (2) together and help each other. But man sometimes forgets he (3) is a part of the (4) family of all living things. Here is an example. A planter is (5) talking about killing (6) weeds on his land. He remembers his first (7) experience with a weedicide. He was a (8) planter then, working (9) on a rubber plantation. He had a problem with weeds. The cost of weeding of the (10) fields by hand was getting (11) too high. So he used a new, cheap, and effective (12) method, good old Sodium Arsenate. He sprayed plenty of this (13) around to kill the weeds. The first thing to (14) react were the frogs.