What does Ms. Parker mean when she says, "Bees help plants, and plants help bees"?
Analyze and Evaluate Information in Spoken English · TELPAS Grade 2 listening. The correct answer, and the reasoning behind it.
Reporting category 3: make inferences from what was said, and work out a speaker's purpose, opinion, or what will happen next.
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Bees and Flowers
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Ms. Parker: Bees visit flowers to get food. They drink a sweet juice from the flowers. It is called nectar.
Ms. Parker: When a bee lands on a flower, a yellow powder called pollen sticks to its fuzzy body.
Ms. Parker: Then the bee flies to another flower, and some of the pollen falls off. The pollen helps the flower make seeds. So bees help plants, and plants help bees.
The question
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What does Ms. Parker mean when she says, "Bees help plants, and plants help bees"?
- Plants feed bees, and bees help plants make seeds.Correct answer
- Bees and plants both need water to live and grow.
- Bees build their homes inside the biggest flowers.
- Plants and bees both like to be out in the warm sun.
Why “Plants feed bees, and bees help plants make seeds.” is correct
This last sentence sums up the lesson. The student has to put together two earlier parts: flowers give bees nectar to eat, and bees carry pollen that helps flowers make seeds. Pulling ideas together into a conclusion is part of the analyze category.
Why the other answers are wrong
- Bees and plants both need water to live and grow. — Water is not part of the lesson.
- Bees build their homes inside the biggest flowers. — The lesson does not say where bees live.
- Plants and bees both like to be out in the warm sun. — The sun is not part of the lesson.
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