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Unit 2 長文問題Ⅱ ミツバチは女社会?
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Have you ever experienced a bee sting? If you have, you may
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not be fond of bees. However, they are very interesting and honeybee
society is very similar to ours. Let's look at some interesting facts
about 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.
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.
Target
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
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sting 刺すこと,~を刺す
be fond of
lifts
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
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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
carry food. After that, they guard the hive entrance. When they are
three weeks old, they fly out the hive, pollinate plants and collect food.
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 they're lucky, they
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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. They work
together and live in harmony.
rule ~を統治する
duty.
female 雌の
rather かなり
as ~につれて
guard 守る
pollinate 授粉する
productive
pollen E
Poj
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in mind 考えて
mate with ~と交尾する
success, **
in harmony
問 1
調和して、仲良く
PLE
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