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I. Read the following passage and choose the item (A, B, C or D) to indicate the correct answer to
each of the questions.
Line I These stories of killer bees in the news in recent years have attracted a lot of attention as the
bees have made their way from South America. Killer bees are reputed to be extremely aggressive in
nature, although experts that their aggression may have been somewhat inflated.
Line 5. The killer bee is a hybrid
or a combination of the very mild European strain of honeybee
and the considerably more aggressive African bee, which was created when the African strain was
imported into Brazil in 1955. The African bees were brought into Brazil because their aggression was
considered an advantage: they were far more productive than their European counterparts in that they
spent a higher percentage of their time working and continued working longer in inclement weather than
did the European bees.
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Line 11 These killer bees have been known to attack humans and animals, and some fatalities have
occurred. Experts point out, however, that the mixed breed known as the killer bee is actually not at all
as aggressive as the pure African bee. They also point out that the attacks have a chemical cause. A
killer bee stings only when it has been disturbed; it is not aggressive by nature. However, after a
disturbed bee stings and flies away; it leaves its stinger embedded in the victim. In the vicera attached to
the embedded stinger is the chemical isoamyl acetate, which has an odor that attracts other bees. As
other bees approach the victim of the original sting, the victim tends to panic, thus disturbing other bees
and causing them to sting. The new stings create more of the chemical isoamyl acetate which Line 20
attracts more bees and increases the panic level of the victim. Killer bees tend to travel in large clusters
or swarms and thus respond in large numbers to the production of isoamyl acetate.
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The subject of the preceding paragraph was most likely
A. Ways of producing honey.
B. Stories in the media about killer bees.
C.The chemical natural of killer bee attacks.
D.the creation of the killer bees.
2. The main ides of this passage is that killer bees
A. have been in the news a lot recently.
B. have been moving unexpectedly rapidly
through the Americas
C.are not as regressive as their reputation
suggests.
D.are a hybrid rather than a pure breed.
3. The word " inflated " in line 4 could best be replaced by
A. exaggerated
C.aired
B. blown
D.burst
4. It can be inferred from the passage that the killer bee