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Read the following passage and answer the questions given below: It is breakfast time. You have been looking forward to eating a nice ripe banana ever since you woke up. Just when you reach for the delicious piece of fruit on your counter, you see something that makes you much less hungry: a swarm of fruit flies! Fruit flies are tiny insects that are attracted to ripe or rotting fruits and vegetables. The flies not only eat the fruit, they also lay their eggs there. A single fruit fly can lay up to500 eggs on the surface of a piece of fruit. Within eight days, the fruit flies that hatch from these eggs are full adults that can then lay their own eggs. As you can see, what might start out as a small fruit fly problem can become very large very quickly. Although there is a chance fruit flies can carry germs on to your food, this is not very likely. Fruit flies are annoying, but they probably will not hurt you. Because they are such a nuisance, however, most people want to get rid of these pesky bugs as quickly as possible. Some people use pesticide sprays on the fruit flies. Although this will kill the flies, it will also spread harmful poison all over your kitchen. Luckily, there is also a completely safe way for you to get rid of fruit flies in your house. The first step is for you to remove all fruits or vegetables from your counter. Store these items in the refrigerator or in sealed containers. Clean up any spilled juice or bits of food that might be on the floor. Take out the trash and empty the recycling bin. Wash any dirty dishes that are in your sink. Doing all of these things will stop new fruit flies from finding food or places to lay their eggs. Next, make a trap to catch all of the remaining fruit flies in your house. First, fill a small bowl with a few tablespoons of vinegar. Then, put a piece of very ripe or rotting fruit into the vinegar. Cover the bowl very tightly with a sheet of plastic wrap and poke a few very small holes in the wrap with a fork. If all goes according to plan, the flies will enter the trap through the holes but will be unable to fly back out. This trap will catch all of the remaining fruit flies. You can either kill these flies or release them outdoors. Fruit flies can be a pest, but they do not have to make you crazy. With a little effort, you can get existing flies out of your house and prevent new ones from taking over your kitchen.
Fruit flies are tiny insects that are attracted to ______ *
1 point
milk
vegetables
water
none of the above
Based on the information in the penultimate (next-to-last) paragraph, we can understand that the author thinks that *
1 point
some people do not mind having fruit flies in their house
some people do not like killing insects
fruit flies do not like vinegar
making a fruit fly trap can be difficult

This is a required question
According to the passage, why should you not use pesticide spray to kill fruit flies? *
1 point
most sprays do not actually kill all of the fruit flies
buying sprays can get expensive if you need to use a lot of them
the sprays take too much time to work
it can be dangerous to use them in your kitchen

This is a required question
In reading this passage, we learn that fruit flies I. die immediately after they lay their eggs II. can grow into adults after only 8 days III. are mostly harmless *
1 point
I only
I and II only
II and III only
I, II, and III
As used in paragraph 3, a nuisance is something that *
1 point
bothers you
can be dangerous
grows fast
is very small​

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