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People love oranges. They
are sweet and juicy. Some oranges have a thick (厚的) skin and some have a thin
skin. They are rich in vitamins, so it is h{#blank#}1{#/blank#}to eat them.
The orange tree is not t {#blank#}2{#/blank#}. It looks small but
beautiful. An orange tree has a lot of shiny green l {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. Its small white flowers
smell very sweet. You can see flowers and fruit on the tree at the s {#blank#}4{#/blank#}time. Do you think it is
very interesting?
There were orange trees
about twenty million years ago. But the fruit were very s{#blank#}5{#/blank#}, not like the big ones we
eat today. People think the orange trees came
f{#blank#}6{#/blank#}China. The Chinese started
to plant orange trees around 2400 BC. In the old days,
Chinese artists liked
drawing p{#blank#}7{#/blank#}of lovely oranges and
orange trees.
Farmers in other parts of Asia and the world started to l {#blank#}8{#/blank#}to grow oranges from the
Chinese. Then the Spanish (西班牙人) planted orange trees in
the New World (North and South America). They took them t{#blank#}9{#/blank#}Florida (佛罗里达) first. The orange is a very important fruit in Florida today.
The word "orange"
is b{#blank#}10{#/blank#}a fruit and a colour. The
colour of oranges is so beautiful that in English we use the name of the fruit
for the colour.
