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  3. German zoologist Randolf Menzel says bees aren’t as busy as people believe t

German zoologist Randolf Menzel says bees aren’t as busy as people believe t

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问题     German zoologist Randolf Menzel says bees aren’t as busy as people believe they are. "Bees are not particularly【C1】______. Instead they sleep a lot and are lazy. They spend【C2】______80 per cent of the night sleeping. Even during the day they often fly to the nest【C3】______they rest their wings. " said Menzel, a zoologist at the Free University in Berlin, who has studied bees for four decades. But to【C4】______for their apparent laziness, they are actually very intelligent. They are【C5】______learners and able to recognize various smells.
    Menzel said bees’ learning, like【C6】______of many animals, was based on a reward system. "If a bee is rewarded once for something, it remembers it for a week. But if it is rewarded three times, it will remember it for its【C7】______lifetime. " Said Menzel. He last week was awarded a【C8】______by the German Zoological Society.
    The memory capacity of bees means they can【C9】______among more than 50 different smells to find the one they want. "What is interesting is that what smells good to a bee, is also a【C10】______smell for humans. " said Menzel. [br] 【C5】
选项 A、rapid
B、swift
C、speedy
D、quick
答案 D
解析 四个词都有“快的，迅速的”的意思，但其意义各有侧重点。rapid多指“运动本身"，迅速的，以极高速度运动，例如：a rapid river湍急的河流；swift指“快速的”，但经常含有“灵巧的，优美的，不费力的”意思，指运动的流畅性与稳定性；在很多场合，可与quick、fast通用，但swift带有文学意味，是比较正式的用词，例如：The expreSS is as swift as an arrow．快车似箭一般地飞驶。speedy含有“时间快、速度快并且迅速把事情办好”的意思，如：aspeedy fight速战；quick指“用较短的时间或在较近的将来动作或理解迅速的”，例如：a quick reply一个迅速的回答。从此句意来看，他们学习东西很快，能够辨别出各种各样的味道。因此，D最为合适。
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