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The plant flowers only at night, and its flowers are white and strongly scented. Botanists infer from these features that it is pollinated by ____

Which choice most logically completes the text?

  1. A. night-flying insects that find flowers by scent and pale colour.Correct
  2. B. bees that fly by day.
  3. C. the wind.
  4. D. hummingbirds attracted to red.

Answer: A. night-flying insects that find flowers by scent and pale colour.

Night, white, scented: moths, not bees.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. bees that fly by day.
Bees would not find night flowers.
C. the wind.
Wind-pollinated plants do not need scent or colour.
D. hummingbirds attracted to red.
The flowers are white and open at night.

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