We were high in the mountains of Xishuangbanna, as far south as you can get in Yunnan, skirting the borders of Myanmar and Laos. The drive was typical, textbook beauty: mountains thick with rubber tree forests, pure tea plantations, banana palms and tiny Dai villages. Hidden among the fields of green, I spotted an odd collection of wooden boxes near a tent on the side of the road. 1
We run into the current home of Wei Dajing, a 17-year-old apprentice (学徒) bee-keeper who was manning his hives. Wei was fresh to the bee-keeping life, and had been on the job for just two months and was here to learn from a master bee-keeper. Their tent and hive set-up is always temporary. 2 “This particular spot was stationed at a sunny patch of yellow flowers. Once these flowers die, the rubber trees will be flowering, so we will move toward them,” he told Sam.
Like thieves in the night, the bee-keepers will stealthily pack up their hives in the dark once the bees go to sleep. “They are most active around midday when they are collecting their nectar (花蜜). 3 ” Wei explained.
The hives were humming, and bees were invasively buzzing around Wei as he spoke to us. Pieces of fruit laid drying among the hives, used to feed the bees and give them an extra boost of energy once Wei bottled up their hard-earned honey. Sam, who also had a couple of his own small hives in his backyard, told us you must always leave a little bit of honey in the hive. 4
We waved goodbye to Wei. Back at Sam’s house, he gave us a bowl of local honey. 5 Lacking the usual sweetness of honey but instead rich with a more savory, spiced flavor, it tasted just like China.
A.It was smooth, thin and runny.
B.Wei skillfully collected honey from the hives.
C.Otherwise the bees would get fed up and abandon you.
D.Maybe it is the flowers that give such unique taste to the honey.
E.By 10 pm they are asleep in their hives, which is when we move.
F.I asked our excellent guide and new best friend, Sam, to pull over.
G.Wei and his master move their camp as the flowers bloom and die.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
答案
[语篇解读] 我来到了美丽的西双版纳,领略了这里迷人的风景,也认识了一位养蜂人。
1.F 我看到了路边一个帐篷附近有很多木箱子。出于好奇,于是我让我们优秀的导游也是我们新交的好朋友Sam靠边停车(我去看看)。
2.G 这个帐篷蜂箱的搭建是临时性的,因为这里有大片的黄花。等这些花凋谢了他们就走了。由此可知答案为G项。
3.E 此处描述蜜蜂的活动规律:白天特别是正午它们采蜜最活跃,到了晚上蜜蜂睡着后养蜂人开始悄悄地收拾蜂巢。到了夜里10点蜜蜂睡着了,他们就开始行动了。故选E项。
4.C Sam告诉我们,一定要在蜂房里给蜜蜂留下少许蜂蜜,否则(留的太多)蜜蜂吃饱了就会抛弃你的。故选C项。
5.A 空格前:回到Sam家,他给了我们一碗当地的蜂蜜,它很光滑、很淡也很松软(描述蜂蜜的样子)。故选A项。
