Hãy tham khảo IELTS Academic Reading Sample 126 - Migratory Beekeeping được chia sẻ dưới đây để giúp các bạn biết thêm cấu trúc đề thi như thế nào, rèn luyện kỹ năng giải bài tập và có thêm tư liệu tham khảo chuẩn bị cho kì thi sắp tới đạt điểm tốt hơn. | You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 13-27 which are based on Reading Passage 126 below. MIGRATORY BEEKEEPING Taking Wing To eke out a full-time living from their honeybees about half the nation s 2 000 commercial beekeepers pull up stakes each spring migrating north to find more flowers for their bees. Besides turning floral nectar into honey these hardworking insects also pollinate crops for farmers -for a fee. As autumn approaches the beekeepers pack up their hives and go south scrambling for pollination contracts in hot spots like California s fertile Central Valley. Of the 2 000 commercial beekeepers in the United States about half migrate This pays off in two ways Moving north in the summer and south in the winter lets bees work a longer blooming season making more honey money for their keepers. Second beekeepers can carry their hives to farmers who need bees to pollinate their crops. Every spring a migratory beekeeper in California may move up to 160 million bees to flowering fields in Minnesota and every winter his family may haul the hives back to California where farmers will rent the bees to pollinate almond and cherry trees. Migratory beekeeping is nothing new. The ancient Egyptians moved clay hives probably on rafts down the Nile to follow the bloom and nectar flow as it moved toward Cairo. In the 1880s North American beekeepers experimented with the same idea moving bees on barges along the Mississippi and on waterways in Florida but their lighter wooden hives kept falling into the water. Other keepers tried the railroad and horsedrawn wagons but that didn t prove practical. Not until the 1920s when cars and trucks became affordable and roads improved did migratory beekeeping begin to catch on. For the Californian beekeeper the pollination season begins in February. At this time the beehives are in particular demand by farmers who have almond groves they need two hives an acre. For the three-week long bloom beekeepers can hire out their .
