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Practice Listening: Select Missing Word
ID: #41055
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The city
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This brownish haze, photochemical smog hanging over Los Angeles results from a combination of factors. The city's plentiful sunshine, high density of automobile traffic, and frequent temperature inversions that trap polluted air. These occur as often as five days a week, when air that is heavy with industrial emissions and automobile exhaust is trapped against the mountains by an upper layer of warmer air. Then the nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons emitted from vehicles react with sunlight and oxygen to produce the orange-brown gas nitrogen dioxide with its pungent odour and other irritants, such as (the toxic gas ozone).
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