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The reading passage and listening lecture both discuss the main reason for the decrease in the honey bee population worldwide.The reading passege supports that the main reason is increase in the number of cell phone. However the listening lecture states that decrease in the bee population is not just about one thing, it is combination of factors.
Initially, the reading and the lecture discuss same subject it is claimed in the reading passage due to cell phones. Because passage states that researchers have discovered that when a cell phone is placed near a hive, the radiation facts to bees and they fail to return home.
Barely, the lecturer states that decline in honey bee population is not just because of cell phones. First time in 2006, as

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