高三英语


An Unknown Dance
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Have you ever seen people dance?Some dances are fast and
others are slow.People's feet always move when they dance.They
keep on moving until the music stops.
people have enjoyed dancing for a very long time.This story
is of a different kind of dance.It is a dance without people or
music.Yet this dance is one of the oldest in the world.It is the
dance of bees.
If you have ever watched bees,you know that they are very
clever.They also work hard looking for food and bringing it back
to their home.
The home of the bees is called a bee hive.Here hundreds even
thousands of bees live.They work day and night building small walls
of wax. There they make their honey.This is the same honey that
we eat.
Where does the honey come from?Bees live on food from flowers.
Have you seen bees flying aroound a flower garden?When a bee rests
on a flower,it tries to go to the centre of it.There it takes in as
much food as its body can hold.Then it flies to take the food bake
to the hive.
At the hive ,bees change this flower food into honey.Then they
fly away for more food.
How do the bees know where to find the best food in the sweetest
flowers?One bee acts as a guide.When it discovers good flowers,it
flies back to the hive and tells the others .It does this by dancing
for them.
The bee dances on one side.This tells the other bees which way
to go to find the flowers.But that is not all.The bee dances for
some time.And the length of its dance tells the other bees how far
they must fly to reach the flowers.
When the bees see the dance,they know where the flowers are .
They fly away and return with more food for the hive.
Sometimes we hear the music of the bees as they fly around.
But few people have ever seen them dance.Yet without that dance we
might never have sweet honey to eat.


1. The writer believes that______________.
a. people dance better than bees
b. people learned dance from beees
C. bees dance more often than people
d. bees don't like music

2. From this passage we know that the dance of bees means_______
a. they are good at dance
b. they want to show their beaute
c. they communicate with each other
d. they have nothing to do

3. Which of the following is true?
a. People get honey from flowers driectly.
b. People draw honey from bees 'bodies.
c. People produce honey in a secret place.
d. people get honey from bees indirectly.

4. What character do bees have?
a. dance-loving
b. hardworking
c. music-loving
d. ctive

5. If a bee wants to get some information about the distance of
food ,he may watch closely at of the other bees' dance.
a. the side
b. the length
c. the place
d. the time






答案：
1-5： C C D B B