Question

Most people have heard the sound of bees among flowers. Bees live almost everywhere in the world except in the Arctic areas.

Many kinds of agriculture depend on these small, social insects. Without bees, fruit and nut growers as well as many other farmers would not have a crop.

There are more than 20,000 kinds of bees. But only honey bees make enough honey for people to use. Honeybees are highly-organized social insects. They work together in a group, called a colony（群體）. Each colony lives in a hive（蜂房）. It contains one queen bee -- she lays all the eggs from which the members of the colony come. Each colony has only a few hundred males, called drones. The majority of all bees in a colony are workers, which are all females.

Bees even have a special stomach, called a honey stomach,  which is used to store sweet fluid that the bees gather from flowers. Bees also have long hairs on their body and legs. These hairs capture pollen（花粉） as bees go from flower to flower. Some of the pollen is taken back to the hive. Some, however, is passed to the next flower. This is how many plants are fertilized. Pollen is the reproductive material of plants. Many important agricultural crops depend on bees for fertilization.

Inside their hives, bees store sweet liquid from flowers and pollen as well. They may even gather sweet liquid from some other kinds of insects. These kinds of sweet liquid are also stored in the hive.

Bees make honey through a process. They add liquid from their own mouths to sweet liquid into simple sugar. As the honey is stored, it dries. It becomes thicker and darker.

Although bees are often thought of as honey makers, they provide a surprising number of products. Also, their greatest economic value is in fertilizing crops-not in making honey.

1.The passage is mainly about             .

A．bees and their colony

B．the way for bees to pass pollen

C．bees and agriculture

D．the process for bees to make honey

2.Honeybees are social insects because         .

A．they work in groups                     B．there is queen bee in every colony

C．they live in a hive                       D．each of them does the same job

3.The most valuable thing honeybees do for people is in             .

A．making honey                          B．fertilizing crops

C．making flowers grow better                D．producing pollen

4.The word “fertilize” in the sentence “This is how many plants are fertilized” probably means “    ”.

A．to make plants strong and productive

B．to make soil rich for plants

C．to start the development of young flowers

D．to introduce pollen into plants

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.C

2.A

3.B

4.D

【解析】

試題分析：文章介紹了蜜蜂的社會結(jié)構(gòu)，蜜蜂是如何分工合作的，蜜蜂對農(nóng)業(yè)的重要性。

1.細(xì)節(jié)題：從文章第二段的內(nèi)容：Many kinds of agriculture depend on these small, social insects. 可知文章講的是農(nóng)業(yè)和蜜蜂的關(guān)系。選C

2.細(xì)節(jié)題：從第三段的句子：Honeybees are highly-organized social insects. They work together in a group, called a colony（群體）可知蜜蜂是有社會的昆蟲，因為它們是群體一起工作的。選A

3.推理題：從第四段的句子：Many important agricultural crops depend on bees for fertilization. 可知蜜蜂最重要的是授粉。選B

4.猜詞題：從前面的句子：Some of the pollen is taken back to the hive. Some, however, is passed to the next flower.可知這個單詞是授粉。選 D

考點：考查社會現(xiàn)象類短文

點評：本文集中考查了細(xì)節(jié)題和推理題，要求考生根據(jù)題目，準(zhǔn)確定位，合理想象，準(zhǔn)確判斷。主要考查考生的細(xì)致閱讀理解能力，和推理能力。猜詞題要抓住所在句子的前后的關(guān)鍵句子或單詞。