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23-26
A thick, golden liquid produced by industrious bees, honey is made using the nectar of owering
plants and is saved inside the beehive for eating during times of scarcity. But how do bees make
honey?

Nectar — sugary liquid — is extracted from owers using a bee's long, tube-shaped tongue, and
stored in its extra stomach, or "crop." While sloshing around in the crop, the nectar mixes with
enzymes that transform its chemical composition and pH, making it more suitable for long-term
storage.

When a honeybee returns to the hive, it passes the nectar to another bee by regurgitating the liquid
into the other bee's mouth. This regurgitation process is repeated until the partially digested nectar
is nally deposited into a honeycomb.

Once in the comb, nectar is still a viscous liquid — nothing like the thick honey you use at the
breakfast table. To get all that extra water out of their honey, bees set to work fanning the
honeycomb with their wings in an eort to speed up the process of evaporation.

When most of the water has evaporated from the honeycomb, the bee seals the comb with a
secretion of liquid from its abdomen, which eventually hardens into beeswax. Away from air and
water, honey can be stored indenitely, providing bees with the perfect food source for cold winter
months.

But bees aren't the only ones with a sweet tooth. Humans, bears, badgers and other animals have
long been raiding the winter stores of their winged friends to harvest honey.

In fact, until sugar became widely available in the sixteenth century, honey was the world's
principal sweetener, with ancient Greece and Sicily among the best-known historical centers of
honey production.

Honey's color, taste, aroma and texture vary greatly depending on the type of flower a bee
frequents. Clover honey, for example, differs greatly from the honey harvested from bees that
frequent a lavender field.

Question 23 (1 point)

Why is the text bene cial for the readers?

a It gives information related to the making-process of honey.

b It shows that steps to make honey are complicated.

c It makes readers aware of the importance of honey.
d It explains the process on how honey is produced.
e It tells readers on how to make honey by their own.

Question 24 (1 point)

Based on the text what does bee do to get rid of water in the nectar?

a They move their wings to vaporize the liquid.

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They place the nectar far from water.
c They change the honeycomb into beeswax.

d They cover nectar with certain liquid.

e They put the nectar in their stomach.

Question 25 (1 point)

Where readers can nd how bee processes nectar?

a Parts 1, 3, 4, and 5. b Parts 4, 5, 6, and 7. c Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4. d Parts 3, 4, 5,

and 6. e Parts 2, 3, 4, and 5.

Question 26 (1 point)

Part six of the text states that honey is also … by other animals.

a saved
b produced
c consumed
d stored
e created