Part Ⅳ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Section A
47. unsuccessful
48. full
49. charge
50. In the brood chambers./In the bottom of the hives.
51. They will be separated/split into two boxes.
Part Ⅳ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth)
Section A
47.文章第一段講到遷徙式養(yǎng)蜂的歷史時作者提到“In the 1880s North American beekeepers experimented with the same idea,moving bees on barges along the Mississippi lighter, wooden hives kept falling into the water,Other keepers tried the railroad and horse drawn wagons,but that didn't prove practical.”,可見19世紀(jì)80年代美國人就開始嘗試遷徙式養(yǎng)蜂。但用駁船運(yùn)輸蜂箱不成功;用火車或馬車則不實際。因此,早期的嘗試都是不成功的。答案可以概括為“unsuccessful”。
48.由第三段第二、三句“These are not moved in the middle of the day because too many of the bees would end up homeless.But at night,the hives are stacked onto wooden pallets,back- to-back in sets of four,and lifted onto a truck.”可見晚上運(yùn)送蜂箱是因為白天蜜蜂飛出去采蜜,如果蜂箱被運(yùn)走,蜜蜂就無法回到蜂箱中了(end up homeless)。稍加推測可知,晚上蜜蜂都回巢了,蜂箱是滿的。因此,答案是“full”或者其他含義相近的表達(dá)。
49.從第四段可知從橘林中采的蜜香甜可口,可以出售。所以養(yǎng)蜂人是要向農(nóng)場主付費(fèi)的。“In their new location,the beekeeper will pay the farmer to allow his bees to feed in such places as orange groves.”這一句中“beekeeper”是主語,賓語是“the farmer”,動詞用“pay”。題目中主語和賓語位置互換了,因此動詞要變成“向……收費(fèi)”。故正確答案為“charge”。
50.第四段倒數(shù)第二句“In the brood chamber below,the bees will stash honey to eat later.”中的“stash”就是“keep”的意思。因此,答案為“In the brood chambers.”。此段講到蜂箱的結(jié)構(gòu)分成三個部分,最上邊是為了讓蜜蜂多采蜜而增加的“臨時擴(kuò)展部分”,被稱為“supers”,最下面就是蜜蜂。自己儲藏蜂蜜的地方,“brood chambers”;為了防止蜂后爬上來產(chǎn)卵,中間加了一層隔板,“screen”。因此,“brood chambers”位于蜂箱的最下層。故答案擔(dān)可以是“In the bottom of the hives.”。
51.由文章最后一段第二句“To create new colonies,a healthy double hive,teeming with bees, can be separated into two boxes.”可知養(yǎng)蜂人是把狀況良好的雙層蜂箱分成兩個蜂箱。因此,正確答案為“They will be separated/ split into two boxes.”。
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