C1 Advanced mock test: free sample

Over the past twenty years, urban beekeeping has 1. (1) off in a big way across Europe. Hives can now be found on the roofs of hotels, office blocks and even opera houses, and city honey, which often has a surprisingly complex flavour thanks to the mix of trees and garden plants in urban areas, is in great 2. (2). Yet the trend has its 3. (3). Ecologists point out that honeybees compete for pollen and nectar with hundreds of species of wild bee, and in 4. (4) of sheer numbers the honeybee wins easily: a single hive may contain fifty thousand insects. In some districts of London and Paris, hives are now so densely packed that there may simply not be enough flowers to 5. (5) round. If so, it is the wild species, many of them more efficient pollinators than the honeybee, that are most likely to 6. (6) out. 7. (7), few experts are calling for a ban on urban hives. Instead, they suggest that anyone thinking of keeping bees should start by planting flowers, and should bear in 8. (8) that a city full of hives is not the same thing as a city that is good for bees.

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