题目内容：

When I called1.my mother, she told me snakes came near the house now and then. Here was a chance for me to distinguish 2.(my)by inventing something merciful that would seize snakes but not harm them. I tried to find some products3.might help me, but there only seemed to be4.(powder) designed to kill snakes. I set about5.(research) the habits of snakes. Prepared with some research findings, I6. (decide) on three possible approaches. I chose the most practical one to cool the snakes with frozen bowl and ice-cream so that they would become sleepy7.could be easily caught. My third attempt was 8.(success). I carried in my hand a small net in the expectation that the snakes would bite again. But 9. (monitor) carefully, the snakes proved to be no trouble. I collected the passive snakes and the next day and10.(merry) released them all back into the wild.