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大连枫叶高中入学英语模拟题 Part I: Non Fiction Reading Readthe following passage and then answer the questions. Honeybees Honeyhas made many foods tasty to eat.??Yetthe busy bees that fly about us when we have a meal outside can be very annoying. Thereare two types of bees – the social bee and the solitary bee.??Social bees, like the honeybee, live in largegroups or colonies and are divided into special groups.??Solitarybees, like the carpenter bee, live alone or in very small groups. Astheir name suggests, honeybees make honey. They live in a beehive made up of honeycombs, a structure that is madeof wax produced by the bees.??Each honeycomb has many six-sided holescalled cells.??It is in these cells thatthe bees put their nectar or honey or lay eggs. As acolony, honeybees are divided into three special groups: the queen, the workerbee, and the drone.??Each group has avery definite role or job.??The queen bee only lays eggs into the waxycells.??The drones’ only job is to matewith the queen bee, after which they die. It is the worker bees that are the real busy bees: they build the hive,collect the food, and care for the young. In each hive there are about 50 000to 80 000 worker bees.??These beesproduce the honey we eat and the beeswax we use to make some candles.?? Thefarming of honey and beeswax by people is called beekeeping.??The farmer builds a small artificial hivecalled an apiary, which is a box hung with many trays of wax in woodenframes.??The worker bees fill thesehoneycombs with honey.??When full, thefarmer takes the trays out and collects the honey.??When the apiary is over populated, the beesfly away in search of a new hive. Theworker bees collect flower nectar with their long tongues and deposit, or put,it into a special “honey stomach”.??Thenectar reacts with chemicals in the stomach to start the honey-makingprocess.??The worker bees then fly totheir hives and deposit the nectar-chemical mixture into cells.??Later, honey is formed from this mixture.?? Nexttime th