TOEFL Listening The Flight of the Bumblebee

TOEFL Listening
The Flight of the Bumblebee

Multiple Choice

1 What is the lecture mainly about?

• • The similarity between the fluid dynamics of a bumblebee and an airplane

• • An experiment designed to find how bumblebees detect the closest nectar

• • How the bumblebee flies

• • When bumblebees go to forage nectar

Multiple Choice

2 According to the lecture, which of the following is true about the fluid dynamics of a bumblebee and an airplane.

• • A bumblebee and an airplane use the same fluid dynamics.

• • A bumblebee glides through the air and doesn’t flap its wings.

• • An airplane’s wing forces the air down, which pushes the wing upward.

• • A bumblebee’s wing forces the air down, which pushes the wing upward.

Multiple Choice

3 According to the lecture, what was the scientific misconception of bumblebee flight?

• • How bumblebees actually fly

• • How much energy bumblebees exert

• • How bumblebees know it’s time to forage

• • Why bumblebees fly from flower to flower

Multiple Choice

4 What ensured the scientists that the bees would visit each of the 5 flowers?

• • The flowers were a variety of colors.

• • The motion-triggered Webcam was attached to each flower.

• • The scientists physically observed the bees for the entire time.

• • Each flower had a landing platform and a single drop of sucrose.

Multiple Choice

5 The scientists conducted an experiment. What did they find out at the onset of the experiment?

• • Bees only visited the flowers that were nearby their bee nests.

• • Bees traveled far to visit flowers and ignored the flowers nearby their nests.

• • The bees always traveled together when looking for nectar.

• • Bees visited flowers closest to their bee nests before going farther away.

Multiple Choice

6 Which of the following is true?

• • Bumblebees pick the most efficient path to look for nectar.

• • Bumblebees try out different colored flowers to see the variety of tastes in the nectar.

• • The bumblebees take turns foraging with a buddy and if they get along, they continue.

• • Bumblebees leave their nests to forage at different times each day.