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Does a bee know what is going on in its mind when it navigates its way to distant food sources and back to the hive (蜂房), using

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问题     Does a bee know what is going on in its mind when it navigates its way to distant food sources and back to the hive (蜂房), using polarized sunlight and the tiny magnet it carries as a navigational aid? Or is the bee just a machine, unable to do its mathematics and dance its language in any other way? To use Donald GrifTm’s term, does a bee have awareness, or to use a phrase I like better, can a bee think and imagine?
    There is an experiment for this, or at least an observation, make long ago by Karl Von Frisch and more recently confirmed by James Gould at Princeton, Biologists who wish to study such things as bee navigation, language, and behavior in general have to train their bees to fly from the hive to one or another special place. To do this, they begin by placing a source of sugar very close to the hive so that the bees (considered by their trainers to be very dumb beasts) can learn what the game is about. Then, at regular intervals, the dish or whatever is moved progressively father and farther from the hive in increments (增长) of about 25 percent at each move. Eventually, the target is being moved 100 feet or more at a jump, very far from the hive. Sooner or later, while this process is going on, the biologists shifting the dish of sugar will find the bees are out there waiting for them, precisely where the next position had been planned. This is an uncomfortable observation to make.
Why does the author mention Karl Von Frisch in the second paragraph?
选项 A、To make people believe his description of the beehive.
B、To introduce Karl’s observation on bee behavior.
C、To contrast his theories with those of Karl Von Frisch.
D、To support the argument that bees use sunlight to navigate.
答案B
解析 本文、第二段主要说明蜜蜂具有一定的意识和思维能力，其根据正是Karl对蜜蜂行为的实验观察，因此选B。
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