Question

Everybody loves oranges. They are sweet and juicy. They are in sections so it is easy to eat them. Some oranges do not have any seeds. Some have a thick skin and some have a thin skin.

The orange tree is beautiful. It has a lot of shiny green leaves. The small white flowers smell very sweet. An orange tree has flowers and fruit at the same time.

There were orange trees twenty million years ago. The oranges were very small, not like the ones today. The orange tree probably came from China. Many different kinds of wild oranges grow there today. Chinese started to raise orange trees around 2400 B.C. Chinese art has lovely old pictures of oranges and orange trees.

Farmers in other parts of Asia and the Middle East learned to raise oranges from the Chinese. Then they taught Europeans. The Spanish planted orange trees in the New World( North and South America). They took them to Florida first. Oranges are a very important crop in Florida today.

“Oranges” is both a fruit and a color. The color of oranges is so beautiful that in English we use the name of the fruit for the color.

1.Oranges are .

A. shiny and green B. sweet and juicy C. old and wild D. thin and white

2.There are many oranges trees in China today.

A. orange B. thin C. wild D. thick

3.Europeans learned to plant orange trees from farmers in .

A. the Middle East and Asia B. China C. Florida D. Span

4.Why are oranges popular among many people?

A. They taste sweet. B. They are easy to eat. C. Their color is beautiful. D. All above.

5.What’s the main idea of this passage?

A. Oranges are sweet and juicy with seeds and a skin.

B. Orange trees went from Asia to the Middle East to Europe to the New World.

C. Oranges probably came from China, and many people like them because they’re sweet and juicy.

D. People love the pictures and the color of oranges.

Answer 1