The killer bees' becoming wild in America resulted from a mistake by ______.A.a beekeeperB
The killer bees' becoming wild in America resulted from a mistake by ______.
A.a beekeeper
B.a guest
C.a scientist
D.a queen
The killer bees' becoming wild in America resulted from a mistake by ______.
A.a beekeeper
B.a guest
C.a scientist
D.a queen
The killer bees should not be coming at all. Nature did not put them on this direct path for the United States; human beings did. The killer bees are from Africa. But in 1957 a scientist from Brazil got some of these killer bees for his experiments. The aim was to produce a better bee. However, an accident happened: a guest beekeeper let twenty-six of the queen bees escape by mistake. Before long, groups of killer bees took off for the woods.
Since that time, the wild killer bees have multiplied(繁衍) many times over. By 1998, their population was over 1015. They have spread all over South America, Central America, and most of Mexico. The United States is the next stop.
Are the killer bees really killers? Yes, they are. In their first thirty years in America, they have killed thousands of hens, pigs, and other animals. While no one knows the exact number, it is believed that several hundred people have also been killed.
So be careful. Killer bees are on the way. Scientists have no idea what to do with them yet. There must be a way.
We know from the passage that killer bees will spread to the United States ______.
A.from north
B.from south
C.from west
D.from east
The killer bees were brought to Brazil in order to ______.
A.make an African bee
B.kill the local bees
C.produce wild bees
D.develop a better bee
According to the passage, sugar was used in the study to ______.
A.feed the bees during the experiment
B.make the bees live in groups
C.reward the bees for good performance
D.train the bees to travel to a particular place
A.bitten
B.stung
C.pointed
D.swallow
The suggestion that bees were not pulling their weight met with skepticism from British beekeepers.Glyn Davies,the President of the British Beekeepers Association,said that bees were not lazy but efficient,“At any particular stage in its energy by doing nothing.Each bee has a unit of life energy and the faster it works,the faster it dies.They are being very wise and perhaps humans should try to follow their example instead of running about like headless chickens.”
The idea of the busy bee is several thousand years old.One current author who has nothing but admiration for the bee is Paul Theroux,the novelist and part-time beekeeper.“I have never seen a bee sleeping.My bees never stop working,”he said.Mr.
Theroux added that Prof.Menzel’s research could have been affected by his national origins.“Perhaps in comparison to the German rate of work,the bee does look lazy,”he said.
Few people think that the busy bee idea will go away,despite the efforts of Prof.Menzel.It seems absurd to apply the word“lazy”to a colony of creatures capable of producing something so extraordinary as honeycomb.The truth is that bees give us an inferiority complex that is not entirely unjustified.In fact,the worship of bees seems to be undergoing a renaissance.IBM recently ran a series of ads drawing on the“waggle dance”of bees,telling businessmen to“make your business waggle.”
36.Prof.Randolf Menzel’s latest research .
A.challenges our knowledge of the relations among bees
B.confirms our knowledge of the relations among bees
C.challenges our perception of the nature of bees
D.confirms our perception of the nature of bees
37.Prof.Randolf Menzel would disagree that .
A.bees are hard working
B.bees are quick learners
C.bees have intelligence
D.bees have good memory
38.According to Glyn Davies,what should we learn from bees?
A.How to work faster.
B.How to live longer.
C.How to cooperate with each other.
D.How to improve work efficiency.
39.It could be inferred from Paragraph 3 that the Germans .
A.are easily affected by their national characters
B.are extremely busy and hard working
C.have many things in common with bees
D.tend to look down upon lazy people
40.The IBM ads in the passage are used to .
A.show the popularity of the idea of busy bees
B.emphasize the negative image of busy bees
C.initiate public discussions on the busy bee image
D.question the comparison of busy bees to humans
Why does the author mention bees,ants,toads,and turtles in the last paragraph?
A.To describe some unusual kinds of pets.
B.To measure distances trailed by various animals.
C.To compare their home-finding abilities with those of homing pigeons.
D.To interest the reader in learning about other animals.