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2022年中考英语第二轮复****讲练测
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1.(2022年江西中考模拟七)
Bees are regarded as the most hard-working workers in the world, but you might have heard about how bees are doing 29________ these days. Yes, and the30______ is becoming more and more serious, the number of bees has been reducing rapidly. It leaves us humans a great31______: Protecting bees. Because if bees aren't flourishing(繁荣), 32______ are people, in the end, people won't eat as a result.
Bees do this amazing thing wherever they go around, collecting poll花粉 from33_______.They spread pollen from one plant to another, in the34_______, the bees make it possible for them to bear fruit.
So, when U.S. beekeepers lose 40% of their bees, as 35_______in 2017, because of the microbial disease(微生物疾病),we 21st-century 36_________ not only take notice, we start crazily trying to fix the problem. And there's no silver bullet remedy(灵丹妙药), of course, but the most available solution seems to be finding out a way to37________ microbial disease. That's where bee vaccinations(接种疫苗) come in.
Like most of the animals, as well as humans, vaccines work through inspiriting the body to make antibodies(抗体) against a 38_______disease. But bees don't make antibodies, scientists have thought vaccinating them would be39________, but a 2015 study discovered that bees can get the ability of making antibodies through vitellogenin(卵黄蛋白原)in their egg.
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Vaccinating a bee wouldn't help that bee, 40______if you vaccinate the queen, she can 41________the ability on to her children and grandchildren through her eggs.
The new vaccine will treat for American foulbrood (AFB), a highly dangerous disease that makes 42_______ of bees quickly. The queen bee can43_______ the medicine in a little sugar water and pass it along to her children. And then her children will not get AFB during their lives. They got the antibodies against the disease.
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