What is the queen bee’s job?
Basic Understanding of a Variety of Texts · TELPAS Grade 3 reading. The correct answer, and the reasoning behind it.
Reporting category 2: find the main idea and key details, and follow what happens in stories and informational texts.
Read the passage. Then answer the questions.
Honeybees
Honeybees live together in a home called a hive. A hive holds a very big family of bees, and each bee has a job.
The queen bee is the mother of the hive. Her job is to lay eggs. The worker bees are all female, and they do almost everything else. They clean the hive, feed the young bees, and guard the door.
Worker bees also fly from flower to flower to collect nectar, a sweet liquid inside flowers. Back at the hive, they turn the nectar into honey. The honey is food for the bees in winter.
When a worker bee finds a good patch of flowers, she flies home and does a special dance. The way she moves shows the other bees which way to fly to find the flowers.
The question
Choose the best answer.
What is the queen bee’s job?
- To guard the door of the hive
- To collect nectar from flowers
- To lay eggsCorrect answer
- To feed the young bees
Why “To lay eggs” is correct
This is a detail question. Paragraph 2 says the queen is the mother of the hive and “Her job is to lay eggs.” Every wrong answer is a job the passage gives to the worker bees, so the student has to keep the two kinds of bee apart.
Why the other answers are wrong
- To guard the door of the hive — Guarding the door is a job of the worker bees.
- To collect nectar from flowers — Collecting nectar is a job of the worker bees.
- To feed the young bees — Feeding the young bees is a job of the worker bees.
Practice more of this
More reading practice for Grade 3, or see the TELPAS practice test for 3rd grade.
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