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（群体）. 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】

试题分析：文章介绍了蜜蜂的社会结构，蜜蜂是如何分工合作的，蜜蜂对农业的重要性。

1.细节题：从文章第二段的内容：Many kinds of agriculture depend on these small, social insects. 可知文章讲的是农业和蜜蜂的关系。选C

2.细节题：从第三段的句子：Honeybees are highly-organized social insects. They work together in a group, called a colony（群体）可知蜜蜂是有社会的昆虫，因为它们是群体一起工作的。选A

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

4.猜词题：从前面的句子：Some of the pollen is taken back to the hive. Some, however, is passed to the next flower.可知这个单词是授粉。选 D

考点：考查社会现象类短文

点评：本文集中考查了细节题和推理题，要求考生根据题目，准确定位，合理想象，准确判断。主要考查考生的细致阅读理解能力，和推理能力。猜词题要抓住所在句子的前后的关键句子或单词。