题目内容
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.
67.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
68.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
69.The most valuable thing honeybees do for people is in .
A.making honey B.fertilizing crops
C.making flowers grow better D.producing pollen
70.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
CABD
Taiwan will finalize a plan by the end of June to open up the island to tourists from mainland China, though no date has been fixed for formal implementation(执行), an official at the Mainland Affairs Council(MAC)said on Monday.
The official said the reports in the local press on Monday that the MAC has dec
ided to postpone its plan to announce the implementation of the new plan on July 1 were inaccurate.
The official said cooperation between different organizations was still underway.The United Daily news quoted the director of the MAC’s legal affairs department, Liu Thehsun, as saying the plan to open up to mainland tourists would not be implemented as scheduled due to a lack of cross-strait communication.
Although relevant authorities, including the Bureau of Immigration and the Tourism Bureau, have complete reports on how to deal with visitors from mainland China, the decision has been taken not to press, ahead with announcement of the plan’s implementation on the first of July, Liu was quoted as saying.
The report also said that while no restrictions would be imposed on the mainland visitors in terms of age or residence in China, the visitors would need to hold a steady job or have more than 50,000RMB(about 6,000, U.S.dollars)in bank savings before they would be eligible(有资格的)to visit Taiwan.
In addition, Taiwan bound mainland tourists would have to come as part of a tour group and would be allowed to stay a maximum of 10 days each time.
The number of mainland tourists allowed to enter the island would also initially be limited to 1,000 people a day.
Although most people from Taiwan are free to travel to China, only a small number of mainland Chinese have been able to visit the island due to restrictions imposed by both sides of the Taiwan Strait after the end of a civil war in 1949.
【小题1】At the moment, according to the passage, ___________.
| A.no mainland Chinese can visit Taiwan now |
| B.any mainland Chinese can visit Taiwan now |
| C.many mainland Chinese have ever visited Taiwan since 1949 |
| D.a few mainland Chinese have ever visited Taiwan since 1949 |
| A.there will be no restr |
| B.mainland visitors who want to travel in Taiwan must have at least ¥50,000 in the bank savings account |
| C.there will be no age restrictions to the mainland visitors |
| D.mainland visitors will be free to travel to Taiwan |
| A.MAC | B.United Daily |
| C.several organizations | D.Bureau of Immigration |
| A.The implementation of the plan has not been fixed. |
| B.It was originally fixed on July 1 to announce the plan’s implementation. |
| C.For lack of cross-strait communication, the plan will not be officially completed until July. |
| D.When the plan is finalized, it will be announced immediately. |