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Section 3.
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You will hear two researchers comparing their research on different types of bees.
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First, you have some time to look at questions 21 to 25 on page 5.
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Now listen carefully and answer questions 21 to 25.
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Have you had a chance to look at our research on Australian native bees?
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Yes, it's very relevant to my research on European bees.
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What aspect do you think is most relevant?
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Well, as you know, my main research interest is the European honeybee and the problems facing it.
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Yes, I've heard about the Varroa mite, but I don't know much about it.
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Well, it almost wiped out the European honeybee population in North America back in the 1980s.
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Thankfully, we don't have it here in Australia yet.
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It sounds like a nasty little creature.
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It certainly is.
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It's like a little hitchhiker, really it hops onto a bee, then when the bee lands on a flower,
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the mite gets off and waits for another bee to come along.
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And from there, I guess the mite climbs onto another bee?
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Right.
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The mite then hitches a ride back to the hive where the bee lives with the rest of the colony.
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So the mite actually sneaks inside the hive on top of the bee's back?
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That's right.
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And once it's there, it dives into a honeycomb cell and heads straight for the bottom.
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That's where the queen bee's eggs are.
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And the honey?
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Yes, and the mite buries itself deep inside it.
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Ah, I see.
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The mite doesn't eat the honey though, does it?
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Well, no, that's the interesting part.
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It uses the honey to cover its scent so it won't be detected.
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And presumably it lives off the blood of the bees.
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That's right.
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It feeds on the bee larva that hatches out from the egg.
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The mite's reproductive cycle takes place there too while it's living in the cell.
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When that's finished, it leaves.
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It sounds like a clever enemy.
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But why does it have such a devastating effect on bee populations?
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Well, it leaves them debilitated and it also infects them with a virus that spreads amongst the colony.
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If the population dies out here in Australia, it will have a devastating effect on Australian agriculture.
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The worrying thing is that we do need to find a way of increasing our bee population.
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Before you hear the rest of the discussion, you have some time to look at questions 26 to 30 on page 6.
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Now listen and answer questions 26 to 30.
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Well, perhaps we can combine my research on European bees
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and yours on Australian native bees to put together a research proposal
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and find a way of safely increasing the Australian bee population.
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That would be great.
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Let's compare notes.
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OK, then.
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Let's start with the European bumblebee.
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There's been a lot of talk recently about bringing them into this country.
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Yes, but the problem is that the bumblebee has a tendency to carry weeds to nearby farmland.
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They would also compete for nectar with your existing bees.
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You know, there's an Australian native bee, the blue -banded bee, which is good at pollinating without carrying weeds.
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It could be useful to farmers.
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The blue -banded bee?
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I've never heard of that one.
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That's one of the challenges we face because there hasn't been a lot of research on it as yet.
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Well, it's better to use native bees because importing them can be disastrous.
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The Africanised bee is a case in point.
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It was introduced into South America because it was a good honey producer, but what they didn't realise was that it attacks anything that moves.
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Speaking of honey producers, the Australian stingless bee is a good alternative source of honey.
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Oh, I didn't know they produced honey.
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Yes, although they don't produce as much as other bees do.
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The main drawback with the stingless bees is that they're quite sensitive to temperature.
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They just won't fly if it gets below 18 degrees, so they aren't really suited to southern parts of Australia.
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I know how you feel about foreign bees, but I think my favourite bee is a Canadian leafcutter bee.
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It has such a gentle personality, but it's really hard working too and it's got a lot of potential for farmers.
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Why's that?
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Well, I've been asked to help import them to this country to pollinate the lucerne or alfalfa crops.
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At the moment, Australian production is about a third of that in North America, where they have these leafcutter bees.
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That's quite a difference.
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But is it safe to import these bees?
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Well, our research shows that it is, so they've been importing them in very limited numbers.
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They have to be thoroughly checked first before they're released to make sure that they don't have any mites or diseases.
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Well, that's good.
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Yes.
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Of course, the only drawback is that we can't bring in very many at a time,
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so we still don't have enough of them here to really make much difference to our crop yields.
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Yes, it takes time to build up a bee population.
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That is the end of Section 3.
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You now have half a minute to check your answers.
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Now turn to section 4.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.

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15 palavras do vídeo que vale a pena aprender, com pronúncia e significado:

PalavraPronúnciaSignificado
bee substantivo/ˈbiː/abelha
honey substantivo/ˈhʌni/mel
import substantivo/ˈɪm.pɔɹt/importados
compare verbo/kəmˈpɛɚ/comparar
producer substantivo/pɹəˈdjuːsə/produtor, produtora
weed substantivo/wiːd/erva daninha, mato
leaf substantivo/lif/folha
crop substantivo/kɹɑp/cultura, cultivo
farmer substantivo/ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/agricultor, fazendeiro
proposal substantivo/pɹəˈpoʊzəl/proposta
carefully advérbio/ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/cuidadosamente, cautelosamente
egg substantivo/ɛɡ/ovo
sensitive adjetivo/ˈsɛn.sɪt.ɪv/sensitivo
flower substantivo/ˈfloʊɚ/flor
virus substantivo/ˈvaɪ.ɹəs/vírus

Phrasal verbs que você vai ouvir

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die out verbodesaparecer
get off verbosair
put together verbomontar, construir
wipe out verboaniquilar, exterminar

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Frases curtas e completas do vídeo que você pode usar na conversa do dia a dia:

  • What aspect do you think is most relevant?
  • The mite doesn't eat the honey though, does it?
  • I've never heard of that one.

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EstruturaNo vídeo
Present perfect have/has + particípio passado — uma ação passada que ainda importa agoraHave you had · I've heard · There's been
Voz passiva be + particípio passado — o foco está no que acontece, não em quem fazwon't be detected · was introduced · aren't really suited

Pronúncia para ficar de olho

O falante usa 19 contrações e formas reduzidas, como don't, I've, didn't. Diga-as na forma curta, do jeito que você ouve.

  • Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: agriculture /ˈæɡ.ɹɪˌkʌl.t͡ʃɚ/, presumably /pɹɪˈzuːməbli/, reproductive /ˌɹiːpɹəˈdʌktɪv/, debilitate /dəˈbɪləteɪt/

Sons difíceis para falantes de português:

  • Consoante final — sem acrescentar um “i” depois: import /ˈɪm.pɔɹt/, weed /wiːd/, crop /kɹɑp/, egg /ɛɡ/, aspect /ˈæspɛkt/
  • /h/ — um sopro suave, diferente do “r”: honey /ˈhʌni/, hive /haɪv/, hop /hɒp/, hatch /hæt͡ʃ/, hitch /hɪt͡ʃ/

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