Unit 14Zoology Do animals have their languages? Reading The Language of Honey Beeshoneycombnest of bees beehive Information For Bees: Kinds _______________ ________________ Bees ________________ ________________ Living places _________________ _________________ How do honey bees communicate with each other?Life stylevariouslive in large groupsdo not live in groupsin treesin holes in the rocksin holes in the ground circle dance & wagging dance Information about the scientistName: _______________Nationality: ____________What’s he? ________________Research work: _________________How to find it out: _________________His discovery: ______________________Karl von FrischAustrianzoologist/scientistthe amazing way …by doing experimentscircle dance & wagging dance Reading Comprehension1.The scientists can study the language of honey bees only after the development of ____.A.the modern beehiveB.experimentsC.dishes of honey D.both A and BD2. Karl von Frisch made an experiment to research ____.A.the food of honey beesB.the dance of honey beesC.the ways honey bees communicateD. The hive of honey beesC3. How did the marked bee tell the message of food to the other bees? Give the follows in right order.(1)The marked bee returned to the hive from the feeding table.(2) It repeated these circles over and over again.(3) The marked bee made a circle to the left.(4) The marked bee made a circle to the right.(5) The other excited bees dance together.(6) The bees left the hive and went to the feeding place.A.(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6) B.(1)(3)(4)(5)(2)(6)C.(1)(4)(3)(2)(5)(6) D.(1)(4)(3)(5)(2)(6)C4. Different dance indicate different ____.A.food B.feeding places C.steps D.semicirclesB( Food is near. )abcd ( Food is far away. )5. The circle dance communicates ____.(1) the distance of food (2) the information of food(3) the amount of food (4) the kind of food A. (1)(2)(3) B. (1)(2)(4) C.(1)(2) D.(2)(3) C6. Which of the following statements is right?A.Animals do have a language like that of human beings.B.When Professor Karl von Frisch placed little dishes of milk on the table, bees soon came.C.In order to be able to watch the bees scientifically, he built some special hive, a glass wall and marked the bees with little spots of colour.D.When a marked bee returned to the hive from the feeding table, it began to perform a dance on the surface of the ground.C
