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In the US, there are more than 50 billion honeybees flying around our farms and neighbourhoods every summer. We take care of them so that they can take care of us by helping many of our crops grow. But honeybees aren’t the only bees in town.
People from England brought the first honeybees to North America in 1622. But those European honeybees arrived in North America, a land already filled with wild bees—more than 4,000 kinds of them. Some of those kinds of wild bee are bumblebees (大黄蜂). Maybe bumblebees are our most famous wild bees, and
they are similar to honeybees in many ways. They live in groups and they are active all summer long. But most wild bees are quite different. Many of them live their lives alone. Among these species, each female is a hard-working single mum who builds her own nest, usually in an underground cave, lays her own eggs, and works alone to feed her babies.
More than 80% of flowering plant species depend on animals to move their pollen (花粉) from flower to flower. This process, called pollination (授粉), makes it possible for these plants to produce seeds.
All kinds of animals play an important role in pollination: butterflies, moths, flies, ants, even birds and bats, but bees are the best pollinators out there.
Some of these relationships have developed over millions of years, and the survival of each partner depends on the other.
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D
) 1. What does the first paragraph tell us?
A. Honeybees are everywhere in the US all year round.
B. The farmers in the US are bored with too many honeybees.
C. Honeybees are useless to the farmers in the US.
D. Lots of honeybees in the US help with the crops’ growth.
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B
) 2. What does the underlined word “they” in paragraph 2 refer to?
A. European honeybees.
B. American bumblebees.
C. American honeybees.
D. European wild bees.
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A
) 3. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Plants and animals depend on each other to survive.
B. The first honeybees were from North America.
C. Male wild bees are the most hard-working.
D. Most plant kinds move their pollen on their own.
