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There are 25,000 kinds of bees identified in the world. The most well-known are the honey bee. In the United States there are known 3,500 species. Most bees do not live in large groups, they are solitary(独居的)bees. The honey bee is not a native of the United States. The first bees were brought to the U.S. from Holland. Later other bees were brought from many other countries. South America had some honey bees, but they did not produce much honey.
When honey bees were brought to the United States, native American called them“white man's flies”. Soon bees became a known sight in America.
In Brazil, honey bees did not survive well and scientists brought African bees to Brazil. These bees were found to be aggressive(好斗的) and mistakenly escaped into the wild. These bees are very common in Brazil now.
Beekeepers raise bees for honey, but more often they raise them to pollinate crops. Pollination occurs when the bee lands on a flower and some of the pollen(花粉)gets stuck to the bees' hairy legs. The next time the bee lands, some of the pollen falls off her legs and onto another flower, allowing it to reproduce.
Beekeepers have been raising bees for their honey for thousands of years. The first beekeepers kept their bees in hollow logs or clay pots. Now they keep the bees in wooden hives. When beekeepers raise bees for honey, they must remove part of the hive to retrieve (获取) the honey. They must“calm”the bees by using a special smoker. The smoke is puffed out around the bees and the bees move slower and are not as aggressive.
1．What's the best title for the passage?
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A．An Introduction to Bees. B．Why Bees Are Kept.
C．The Great Use of Bees. D．Bees in the USA.
2．What's the meaning of the underlined word“pollinate”?
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A．Make something fertile (结果实的) with pollen.
B．Get pollen away from.
C．Plant.
D．Harm.
3．From the passage we can infer that _____.
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A．bees want their honey to he taken away in order to get more room
B．all bees are kept by raisers
C．bees don't want their honey to be taken away
D．it is easy to retrieve the honey
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