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Nearly everyone loves honey. For a sweet treat, drizzle golden honey over a b
Nearly everyone loves honey. For a sweet treat, drizzle golden honey over a b
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2023-10-17
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Nearly everyone loves honey. For a sweet treat, drizzle golden honey over a buttered waffle. Stir honey into a steaming cup of tea. Spread honey on a peanut butter sandwich, or spoon it over chilly yogurt or warm oatmeal. Best of all, eat honey straight from a spoon. It is a wonderful and sweet treat made by one of nature’ s hardest working insects called the honey bee.
Do you know how bees make honey? It’ s a long and difficult job. That’ s why we say, "Busy as a bee."
Bees build their hive in a hole in a tree, in an empty wooden box, or in another hollow place. Inside their hive, bees hang sheets of honeycomb that they mold out of wax. Bees make the wax inside their bodies and squeeze it out from glands in their bellies. They shape the wax into honey comb sheets that are covered on both sides with tiny cups, or cells. The bees fill these tiny wax cups with honey.
Bees make honey from flowers, and the honey tastes like the flowers that it comes from. White lawn clover and dandelions make delicious honey. Strong smelling weeds such as sunflowers and smartweed make honey that tastes unpleasant. Most of the honey in the grocery store is from clover or alfalfa blossoms. The most expensive honey comes from the flower of the tupelo tree, which grows in Florida.
Every flower contains a drop of sweet juice, or nectar. Bees fly up to five miles from the hive in search of blossoms. To make just one pound of honey, bees must fly a total of fifty-five thousand miles between their hive and flowers. When bees find blossoms, they gather nectar, bring it back to the hive, and deposit it in the honeycomb cells. Bees fan their wings over the cells to help water evaporate. This makes the watery nectar turn into thick, syrupy honey. Bees seal each honeycomb cell with a wax lid.
Bees eat pollen and nectar from flowers. When it is cold or dry, plants do not produce flowers. When it is cloudy, rainy, or cold, bees do not leave the hive. If bees cannot visit flowers, they must live on stored food. That is why bees store honey in a honeycomb.
Every bee has a special job. Female worker bees make honey and wax. They also take care of eggs and larvae and guard the entrance to the hive. Male bees are called drones. Drones have only one job. Their job is to mate with the queen so she can lay eggs. A hive has only one queen bee. The queen spends her entire life laying eggs while other bees feed and take care of her. She is the mother of every bee in the hive.
During winter, a worker bee lives for several months. In summer, a hard-working bee might wear out her wings in two weeks. When a bee can no longer fly, guard bees will not let her in the hive. Soon she dies. A single worker bee makes about a half-tea spoon of honey in her lifetime. That is not even enough honey to spread on a muffin!
Questions 66—70
Answer the following questions according to the passage. [br] Why do bees make honey?
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答案
To store it as food for the time when they cannot visit flowers.
解析
文章第六段叙述了在天气条件不利的时候,植物不开花,蜜蜂找不到食物来源时需要依赖储存蜂蜜存活。由此可知本题答案。
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