CLOZE PASSAGE

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The honey bee is a very unusual kind of insect. ___1___ other insects which
live alone, the honey bee lives as a ___2___ of a community. These bees live
___3___ in what is known as a bee colony.

The head of the colony is called the queen bee. She is larger than the___4___ of
the bees. Her main task ___5___ the colony is to lay eggs. Most of the ___6___
bees are the worker bees. These bees ___7___ nectar and pollen from flowers.
The nectar ___8___ is carried by the worker bees is deposited on the hive and
then converted ___9___ honey. The worker bees also help look ___10___ the
young bees. as soon as the eggs are ___11___, the worker bees feed the young
bees ___12___ pollen and nectar. The third type of bee found in the colony is
the drone or ___13___ bee. The main task of ___14___ a bee is to mate with a
new queen.

The queen bee has a life ___15___ of about three years. ___16___ this period,
she would have ___17___ more than half a million eggs. ___18___ the queen
bee is dying, a new queen would be groomed. This new queen would eventually
take ___19___ the 'duties' of the old queen when the ___20___ dies.

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