What's small，buzzes here and there and visits flowers?  If you said bees or hummingbirds，you got it. You wouldn't be the first if you mixed the two up. Now a group of researchers even say we should embrace our history of considering the two together in the same group. The  way  scientists  study  bees  could  help  them  study  hummingbird behavior，too.
Scientists first compared the two back in the 1970s when studying how animals search for food. The idea is that animals use a kind of math to make choices in order to minimize the work it takes to earn maximum rewards. Researchers at the time focused on movement rules，like the order in which they visited flowers，and where flowers were located relative to others. It was “almost like an algorithm (算法)” for efficient searching，said David Pritchard，a biologist at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Hummingbirds and bees had similar solutions.
As the field of animal cognition (认知) appeared，hummingbird and bee research parted. Neuroscientists and behavioral ecologists developed ways to study bee behavior in naturalistic settings. Hummingbird researchers compared hummingbirds to other birds and borrowed methods from psychology to study their ability to learn in the lab. To be fair，hummingbirds and bees differ. For example，hummingbirds have more advanced eyes and brains than bees. Honeybees and bumblebees are social；hummingbirds typically aren't.
But however they perceive (感知) or process information，they both experience similar information, Dr. Pritchard said. In  day today  searching  for  food, for  example，hummingbirds may rely on more of a bee's eye view than a bird's eye view. Like other birds，they rely on landmarks, distances and directions to make maps when travelling long distances，but they don't use these cues to find flowers. Move a flower just an inch or so away from where a hummingbird thought it was and it will hover over the flower's original location. Dr. Pritchard is investigating if, like bees, hummingbirds engage in view matching—hovering，scanning snapshots of a place to its memory and using those as references later.
32．What is the center of research on hummingbirds and bees in the 1970s?
A．Memory.    B．Movement rules.   C．Reward calculating.  D．Information processing.
33．Which subject's research methods were adopted to study the learning ability of hummingbirds?
A．Math. B．Biology.   C．Ecology. D．Psychology.
34．How do researchers find out that hummingbirds are not like birds?
A．By setting them free.     B．By moving flowers.
C．By matching views.      D．By making maps.
35．Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A．Hummingbirds and Bees         B．Hummingbirds in the Lab
C．New Trends in Studying Bees     D．Thinking of Hummingbirds as Bees
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【语篇解读】　本文是一篇说明文。人们普遍把蜂鸟和蜜蜂混在一起考虑，一组研究人员欣然接受了这种做法并对蜂鸟和蜜蜂进行了研究。
32．解析：选B。细节理解题。根据第二段第三句话“Researchers at the  time focused on movement rules，like the order in which they  visited flowers，and where flowers were located relative to others.”可知答案为B项。
33．解析：选D。细节理解题。根据第三段中的“Hummingbird researchers  compared hummingbirds to other birds and borrowed methods  from psychology to study their ability to learn in the lab.”可知，蜂鸟研究人员将蜂鸟与其他鸟类进行了比较，并从心理学上借用了一些方法来研究它们的学习能力。故可知答案为D项。
34．解析：选B。细节理解题。根据文章最后一段中的“Like other birds，they rely on landmarks，distances and directions to make maps  when travelling long distances，but they don't use these cues to  find flowers. Move a flower just an inch or so away from where a  hummingbird thought it was and it will hover over the flower's  original location.”可以推断出研究者是通过移动花而发现蜂鸟不像鸟。故选B。
35．解析：选D。主旨大意题。根据第一段的内容及全文语境可知D项“把蜂鸟当作蜜蜂”作为标题符合题意。
【高频词汇】　embrace vt.接受　minimize vt.使减少到最低限度　naturalistic adj.模仿自然的　snapshot n．快照
【长难句式】　Researchers at the time focused on movement rules，like the order in which they visited flowers，and where flowers were located relative to others.
分析：本句中的in which引导的定语从句，先行词为the order，and连接where引导的宾语从句。
译文：当时的研究人员专注于运动规律，比如它们访问花的顺序，以及花相对于其他花的位置。