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五、(2023·徐州)阅读理解。
You stand in a garden. A low noise reaches your ears. You see a small insect flying near your head. You turn to look, and it flies out of sight. There it is again! You move slowly. You can see yellow and black stripes on it.
Is it a bee? It lands on a flower, and you take a closer look.
Bees fold their wings onto their backs when they stop flying. But this insect's wings reach out like a fly's. That's because it is a fly—a flower fly.
Many flower flies look like bees. This helps keep them safe from animals that may want to eat them. Insects with yellow and black stripes usually have stings(刺). Insect eaters, such as some birds and frogs, need to get stung only once to know that stripes mean trouble. Flower flies can't sting, but insect eaters see the stripes and leave the flies alone.
Flower flies spend most of their time looking for food. Like bees, flower flies eat pollen(花粉) and nectar(花蜜). This makes them easy to find in a garden full of flowers. They are helpful garden insects just like bees. Adult flower flies move pollen from one flower to another, which helps some flowers grow into fruit.
Flower flies can stay in one place while flying. Most insects move forward when they fly. But flower flies can twist their wings, much like hummingbirds do. Twisting keeps them in one place, so they can remain over flowers, leaves, or even you!
1. In which part of a magazine can we probably see this passage?
A. Nature.
B. Culture.
C. Fashion.
D. Health.
2. In which way are bees and flower flies different?
A. The food that they eat.
B. The colour of their stripes.
C. The way they help garden flowers grow.
D. The shape of wings when they stop flying.
3. What does the underlined part “leave the flies alone” in Paragraph 4 mean?
A. Make friends with the flies.
B. Eat the flies up.
C. Keep away from the flies.
D. Invite the flies in.
4. What might the writer of the passage agree with?
A. People usually prefer bees to flower flies.
B. People sometimes mistake flower flies for bees.
C. People should stop birds eating bees and flower flies.
D. People should have beautiful gardens in their neighbourhood.

答案： 1.A 2.D 3.C 4.B