Most bees are brown, hairy and 8 to 22 mm long. Bees live as part of a large family. Over 25,000 kinds of bees have been found. Among all of them, honey bees are the most common.
Honey bees always live in groups called hives（蜂群） Each hive has a queen, drones（雄蜂）and workers（工蜂）. Like a human society, each bee in a hive knows its own job.
The queen is the largest bee. She doesn’t go out to work, but lays eggs. Sometimes a queen can lay 3, 000 eggs in a day.
Drones do not collect food from flowers. They are the queen’s husbands. When there’s not much food, drones are often kicked out of the hive.
Workers are the smallest and busiest bees. A colony can have 50,000 to 60,000 workers. They collect food for the queen and babies. They guard the hive and help to keep it cool by fanning their wings. A worker only lives for 28 to 35 days.
To collect a pound of honey, a bee may have to fly a long way. Sometimes it is equivalent to（相当于） twice around the world. Bees have to visit more than 10,000 flowers to make a pound of honey.
1.______________ kinds of bees have been found.
A.Over 25, 000 B.Over 3,000 C.Less than 25,000 D.Less than 3,000
2.What does the queen do in a hive?
A.Collects food. B.Collects honey. C.Visit’s flowers. D.Lays eggs.
3.What will happen to drones if there is not much food?
A.They must collect flowers for themselves.
B.They are often kicked out of the hive.
C.They collect food for the queen and babies.
D.They will make honey.
4.Which of the following is right?
A.A worker can lay 3,000 eggs in a day.
B.Workers are the largest and busiest bees.
C.Workers guard the hive and help to keep it cool by fanning their wings.
Infrared thermometers（红外温度计）, or temperature guns, have been widely used to detect（检测）the early symptoms of COVID-19. They allow us to measure（测量）temperatures quickly. How do these thermometers work?
They determine temperature by measuring the energy coming from your skin （皮肤）. Everything in nature has molecules （分子） inside of it that are always moving around. This include our skin. The higher the temperature is, the faster the molecules move. The molecules give off infrared light while moving.
This kind of light can be focused or absorbed（吸收）. The thermometers use a lens（镜头）to focus infrared light from the skin onto a detector called a thermopile（热电堆）. The thermopile absorbs the infrared radiation and turns it into heat. The electronic sensors inside the thermometers can measure the heat and read the temperature of the skin after making some calculations （计算）.
However, you might sometimes find that the results aren’t always accurate （准确的）. It depend on how these devices are used. For example, how far away they are held from the body, how steadily they are held and for how long. Factors such as make-up and sweat will also affect the results.
1.Temperature guns, have been widely used to detect （检测）the early symptoms of____________.
A.COVID-17. B.COVID-18. C.COVID-19. D.COVID-20.
2.They determine temperature by measuring the energy coming from your____________.
A.skin B.head C.face D.foot
3.The electronic sensors inside the thermometers can measure the heat and read the____________ of the skin.
A.color B.temperature C.light D.structure
4.Which one of the following might not affect the accurate results?
A.The thermometers is too far from the body.
B.The thermometers is held for very long.
C.Make-up and sweat.
D.The thermometer is held steadily at the right time.
John Flynn was born in Australia in 1880. His father was a schoolteacher. John studied hard and in 1911 he left the city of Melbourne and went to work in South Australia for the Presbyterian Church. The church wanted to help the sheep farmers who lived in the outback many kilometers from towns and cities. They built a number of small hospitals and found nurses to work there, but at that time there were only two doctors in all of South Australia.
One story Flynn often told was about Jimmy Darcy. One day, Jimmy had an accident on his farm so friends took him to see F.W. Tuckett, who worked at the post office at Halls Creek. It was a journey of 22 km. Tuckett was the only person in the area who knew anything about medicine. He tried to help but Jimmy was too ill. Tuckett finally talked by radio to a doctor in Perth, a city 1, 500 km away. The doctor took ten days to arrive. He travelled by car, by horse and on foot and when he arrived, Jimmy was dead. Flynn saw the planes could really help people in the outback. He wrote about his idea for a “Flying Doctor” in 1917, but it wasn’t until 1928 that a flying doctor actually took off. By the 1930s there was a Flying Doctor plane in every part of Australia.
1.The underlined word “outback” means" a_________ place.
A.popular B.lonely C.beautiful D.wonderful
2.What was the problem in South Australia?
A.The nurses weren’t very good. B.There were no hospitals.
C.There weren’t enough doctors. D.There were too many people.
3.What does Flynn tell us about Jimmy?
A.He know something about medicine.
B.He was a doctor.
C.He had an accident.
D.He wrote the book Flying Doctor.
4.What do we know about the doctor from Perth?
A.He travelled too slowly to save Jimmy.
B.He had problems with his car.
C.He didn’t know the way to Halls Creek.
D.He saved Jimmy’s life.
Bob is a student. He is very busy. In the morning, he gets up at six o’ clock. Then he runs at six fifteen. At six thirty, he takes a shower. He has breakfast at seven o’clock. He goes to school at seven thirty. In the afternoon, he plays games with his friends at seven. Then he does his homework at eight o’clock. He goes to bed at nine.
1.____________ , Bob gets up at six.
A.In the afternoon B.In the evening C.In the morning D.At noon
2.He goes to school____________.
A.at 7:00 B.at 6:30 C.at 8:00 D.at 7:30
3.He plays games with____________ at seven.
A.his friends B.his parents C.his sister D.his brother
You must know Singles Day（Nov 11）in China. Many people, probably（可能）even your parents, stay _______ late that night. They go shopping online _______ big savings （省钱）. Well, the US has something like it _______ Black Friday.
Black Friday is the _______after Thanksgiving. It fell on Nov 29 this year. It is one of the biggest shopping _______ in the US. People want to start shopping for Christmas gifts, so they go shopping on this day to _______ money.
It’s called Black Friday _______ shops used to record（记录）sales with black ink（墨水）. So when there was a lot of black ink on a page, it meant the shop sold a lot.
Shopping on Black Friday _______ place at actual（实体的）stores. It is _______ from Singles Day. People stand in line for hours. Sometimes they fight over things because there are only a few left. Televisions, computers and video game systems（电子游戏系统）are some of people’s favorite things to ________ .
1.A.up B.on C.in D.for
2.A.get B.gets C.got D.to get
3.A.call B.calls C.called D.calling
4.A.Saturday B.Friday C.Thursday D.Wednesday
5.A.day B.days C.week D.week
6.A.save B.make C.count D.return
7.A.so B.but C.because D.and
8.A.take B.takes C.took D.taking
9.A.difference B.different C.same D.the same
10.A.buy B.buying C.see D.seeing
—Could you help me carry the heavy box?
—______________.
A.My pleasure B.You are right C.Don’t worry D.With pleasure
