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Practice Reading: Fill in the Blanks (Dropdown) ID: #31568 Flowers and Bees
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Below is a text with blanks. Click on each blank, a list of choices will appear. Select the appropriate choice for each blank.
Most  people  assume,  correctly,  that  flowers  look  the  way  they  do  to  attract  insects  that  pollinate  them.  But  that’s  not  the  whole  story.  Scientists  have  now  discovered  that  plants  have  another  “trick  up  their  leaves”  to  make  themselves    to  even  the  choosiest  insect  solar  power.  Cambridge  University’s  Beverly  Glover  and  her      recently  set  up  some  fake  flowers  filled  with  a  sugar  solution,  which  they  kept  at  different  temperatures.  Unleashing  a  team  of  bumblebees  on  their  floral  ,  they  watched  as  the  insects  visited  the  flowers  to  drink  the  surrogate  nectar.  Very  quickly,  it  became  obvious  that  the  bees  were  concentrating  on  the  flowers  with  the  warmest  nectar.  Just  in  case  it  was  something  to  do  with  the  colour  of  the  fake  flowers,  the  scientists  also  tried  a  different  colour  combination  and  got  the  same  .

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