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First read the following questions.
85. What is the main idea of this passage?
A. People are puzzled by the figure 8 dance of a bee.
B. How a bee passes messages about food on to its fellows.
C. There are many unclear details about a dancing bee.
D. How a bee carries the food it finds back.
正确答案是
86. Which of the following statements is Not true?
A. A bee takes advantage of the sun to direct its fellows.
B. A bee dances where it finds the food.
C. A bee waggles its hindquarters to indicate the distance.
D. After several bees get the message and leave, others come to watch the dancing bee.
正确答案是
Now scan the passage and answer the questions.
Wings vibrating, hindquarters waggling, a bee dancing on the side of the honeycomb, directs followers to nectar or pollen found on a recent journey. She dances a figure 8 that details distance and direction. A few bees stay with her for several dance circuits. As they get the message and fly out to duplicate her journey, their places are quickly taken by others.
The angle between the dance direction and the vertical is known to signal the direction from the hive to food in relation to the sun. At the center of the figure 8 the bee waggles her abdomen and quivers her wings, indicating the distance. The intensity of the dance plus the samples offered and the lingering odors on the bee's body suggest the type of food and its quality. But many details are still unclear.