Practice reading the following excerpt for fluency and give a summary of the intended meaning of the paragraph: Joe Traynor is a California bee broker. From a small office in a quiet side street in downtown Bakersfield, on the southern tip of Central Valley, he runs a lucrative business matching almond growers with beekeepers. I put to him that surely all this moving around of bees, confined to their hives for long periods, must be stressful for them. He admits that too much travel is not good for their health: "When you're trucking bees, they need sleep, just as humans do, and the bumping around in the truck for two to three days keeps them awake, and this lowers their resistance to pests and disease."

The intended meaning of this paragraph is verything in nature is some how connected to one another. For example, bees need to sleep, and they need to be able to move around just like humans do. Animals and humans are alike in many different ways. Even trrees need air and room to grow just like humans.

Explanation:

The intended meaning of this paragraph is verything in nature is some how connected to one another. For example, bees need to sleep, and they need to be able to move around just like humans do. Animals and humans are alike in many different ways. Even trrees need air and room to grow just like humans.

Explanation:

the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”