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Unit 2 長文問題 ミツバチは女社会 ?
(1) Have you ever experienced a bee sting? If you (2) have, you may
not be fond of bees. However, they are very interesting and honeybee
society is very similar to (3) ours. Let's look at some interesting facts
about (4) it.
2 Honeybees live together in groups of 20,000-80,000 in a beehive.
This group is call ] a colony and the bees in the hive can be
categorized into three types: a single queen, tens of thousands of
worker bees and hundreds of drones.
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①現在完了形・現在完了進行形
②名詞・冠詞 人称代名詞
③受け身
sting 刺すこと〜を刺す
be fond of ~を好む
honeybee ミツバチ
be similar to
〜に似ている
beehive ハチの巣
colony コロニー
categorize
~を分類する
tens of thousands of
何万もの〜
drone 雄バチ
lay eggs 卵を産む
lifespan
rule ~を統治する
duty.
female 雌の
rather かなり
as ~につれて
Ange from
3 A queen bee's job is to lay eggs all her life. Each day the queen bee
lays around 2,000 eggs. The average lifespan of a queen is three to four
years. Does the queen "rule" the colony? No. Her duty is simply egg-
laying. In fact, the queen bee has a smaller brain than a worker bee.
4 The worker bees are the largest population in the hive. They are
all female bees but can't lay eggs. A worker bee's life is rather short.
They live around 40 days. Their job is to keep the queen bee happy.
They do all the work but change jobs as they grow. For about a week
after birth, they mainly clean the hive. Sometime between five to
sixteen days after birth, they usually take care of the babies and help to
build the hive. When they become twelve to eighteen days old, they (d
carry food. After that, they guard the hive entrance. When (5) they are
three weeks old, they fly out the hive, pollinate plants and collect food.
5 If you're a drone bee, life is hard. You're [ bear ], live for a month
or two, and then die. During that time, you're not a productive member
of the hive-you can't collect pollen or help to look after eggs, like
worker bees-and you can't even sting anyone. Drone bees live with
one thing in mind: mating with a queen. When (6) they're lucky, they
(7) can, but they die soon after
(8) that.
6 Every bee in the hive has a part to play in the survival and success
of their kind. Bees have been living like this for ages. (9) They work
together and live in harmony.
guard 守る
pollinate 授粉する
productive 生産的な
pollen E
in mind 考えて
mate with
と交尾する
success, **
in harmony
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