Unit 3 Inventors and inventions reading课时作业

Ⅰ.七选五

　　根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

(2018吉林实验中学考前模拟)

　　We were high in the mountains of Xishuangbanna, as far south as you can get in Yunnan, skirting the borders of Myanmar and Laos. The drive was typical, textbook beauty: mountains thick with rubber tree forests, pure tea plantations, banana palms and tiny Dai villages. Hidden among the fields of green, I spotted an odd collection of wooden boxes near a tent on the side of the road.　1　

　　We run into the current home of Wei Dajing, a 17-year-old apprentice (学徒) bee-keeper who was manning his hives. Wei was fresh to the bee-keeping life, and had been on the job for just two months and was here to learn from a master bee-keeper. Their tent and hive set-up is always temporary.　2　"This particular spot was stationed at a sunny patch of yellow flowers. Once these flowers die, the rubber trees will be flowering, so we will move toward them," he told Sam.

　　Like thieves in the night, the bee-keepers will stealthily pack up their hives in the dark once the bees go to sleep. "They are most active around midday when they are collecting their nectar (花蜜). 　3　" Wei explained.

　　The hives were humming, and bees were invasively buzzing around Wei as he spoke to us. Pieces of fruit laid drying among the hives, used to feed the bees and give them an extra boost of energy once Wei bottled up their hard-earned honey. Sam, who also had a couple of his own small hives in his backyard, told us you must always leave a little bit of honey in the hive.　4　

　　We waved goodbye to Wei. Back at Sam's house, he gave us a bowl of local honey. 　5　 Lacking the usual sweetness of honey but instead rich with a more savory, spiced flavor, it tasted just like China.

A.It was smooth, thin and runny.

B.Wei skillfully collected honey from the hives.

C.Otherwise the bees would get fed up and abandon you.