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Everyone loves oranges. They are sweet and juicy. They're in sections (分瓣), so it is 1._____ to eat them.
Some oranges do not have any seeds. Some have a 2._____ skin (果皮), and some have a thin skin.
The orange tree is beautiful. It has a lot of shiny green 3.______. The small white flowers smell very sweet.
An orange tree has 4.______ and fruit at the same time.
There were orange trees twenty million years ago. The oranges were very small, not like the 5.______ today. The orange trees probably came from China. Many different kinds of wild oranges 6.______ in China today.
The Chinese started to raise orange trees about 4,400 years ago.
Farmers in other parts of Asia and the Middle East 7.______ to raise oranges from the Chinese. 8.______
they taught Europeans. The Spanish planted orange trees in the New World (North and South America). They
9.______ them to Florida first. Oranges are a very important crop to Florida today.
In English, orange 10.______ both a fruit and a color. We use the name of the fruit for the color.