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Most people are probably aware that honey, the natural sweetener that man has been using for thousands of years, is (1)________ by bees;
Manufactured Created Generated Produced.
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…but perhaps fewer of us realise just how important these (2)________ creatures are to farmers.
Tiny Miniature Minute Short.
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Bees pollinate fruit and vegetable crops; it has been said that every third mouthful we eat depends (3)________ a bee having pollinated one or more of the ingredients…
From To On About.
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… but now farmers in the United States are (4) ________ a major problem. American bees are dying - and nobody knows why.
Facing Finding Solving Meeting.
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Making sure crops are (5) ________ pollinated…
Fairly Properly Precisely Distinctly.
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… has become big (6) ________ in the United States.
Business Industry Work Production.
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Beekeepers load their hives onto huge lorries and transport them (7) ________ the country to pollinate the farmer’s crops. When the bees finish their work in one state and return to their hives, they are taken on to another state.
Through Along Over Around .
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The problem became apparent when the bees (8) ________ to return to their hives, with some beekeepers losing more than 70 per cent of their insects.
Stopped Missed Ignored Failed.
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It soon became clear that the bees were flying off and dying in huge (9) ________.
Quantities Levels Numbers Amounts.
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Now the race is on to find the cause and, hopefully, the solution. (10) ________, some beekeepers are importing bees from other countries…
Apart from this From then on In the meantime Nevertheless.
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… in the hope that they will be (11) ________ to whatever it is that is killing their American cousins.
Opposed Resistant Defensive Hostile.
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Only time will (12) ________.
Say Tell Prove Show.
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