题目内容：

Bees live in a house that is called a hive. There are three kinds of bees: workers, drones (雄蜂) ______ queens. Only one queen bee can live in each hive. If she is lost or dead, the other bees ______ their work.

Workers are very clever and busy. They all join together ______ small rooms called cells of wax for their honey. Each worker bee does its own work. Some go out and collect honey from the flowers; ______ stay at home and work inside the hive. The cells ______ have six sides are made by worker bees. Did you ever look into a glass hive and see them while at work? It is ______ to see how busy they always are. Before winter comes, all the drones are driven from the hive ______ they don’t eat the honey they did not collect.

It is not safe ______ children to be too close to bees. Bees have painful stings they use in their defense (防御).

1.A. and    B. or    C. but    D. either

2.A. are stopped    B. stops    C. will stop    D. stopped

3.A. builds    B. built    C. build    D. to build

4.A. the other    B. others    C. another    D. other

5.A. who    B. whom    C. which    D. /

6.A. pleasant    B. boring    C. scary    D. tiring

7.A. in order to    B. so as to    C. as long as    D. so that

8.A. to    B. for    C. in    D. with