In the passage, what does the word 'patch' mean in 'a good patch of flowers'?
A honeybee colony is a busy community of up to fifty thousand bees. At its centre is one queen, whose job is to lay eggs, sometimes as many as two thousand in a single day. Most of the bees are female workers. They clean the hive, feed the young, guard the entrance and fly out to collect nectar and pollen from flowers. When a worker finds a good patch of flowers, she returns to the hive and performs a 'waggle dance'. The direction of the dance shows the other bees which way to fly, and its length shows how far away the flowers are. Male bees, called drones, do not work at all. Their only job is to mate with a queen from another colony. Without bees, many crops would produce much less fruit, because bees carry pollen from flower to flower.
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. An area of ground
- Step 1: The flowers grow together in one place. Step 2. A patch here means an area. Answer: an area of ground. Why not the others: these meanings do not fit the sentence.
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