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  3. German zoologist Randolf Menzel says bees aren’t as busy as people believe t

German zoologist Randolf Menzel says bees aren’t as busy as people believe t

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问题     German zoologist Randolf Menzel says bees aren’t as busy as people believe they are. "Bees are not particularly【C1】______. Instead they sleep a lot and are lazy. They spend【C2】______80 per cent of the night sleeping. Even during the day they often fly to the nest【C3】______they rest their wings. " said Menzel, a zoologist at the Free University in Berlin, who has studied bees for four decades. But to【C4】______for their apparent laziness, they are actually very intelligent. They are【C5】______learners and able to recognize various smells.
    Menzel said bees’ learning, like【C6】______of many animals, was based on a reward system. "If a bee is rewarded once for something, it remembers it for a week. But if it is rewarded three times, it will remember it for its【C7】______lifetime. " Said Menzel. He last week was awarded a【C8】______by the German Zoological Society.
    The memory capacity of bees means they can【C9】______among more than 50 different smells to find the one they want. "What is interesting is that what smells good to a bee, is also a【C10】______smell for humans. " said Menzel. [br] 【C9】
选项 A、discriminate
B、distinguish
C、divide
D、derive
答案 B
解析 四个词的意思分别是：discriminate(常与against，in favor of连用)歧视；不一视同仁，区分，区别待遇；distinguish(常与from，between连用)区别；区分；divide(常与in，into连用)分开；划分；derive(常与from连用)得来；得到，源自。蜜蜂的超强记忆能力意味着它们能够在50种不同的气味中分辨出它想要的气味。故B是正确答案。
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