Plants4--oranges

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英文原文：

Oranges

    Everybody lovesoranges. They are sweet and juicy. They are in sections, so it iseasyto eat them. Some oranges do not have any seeds.Some have a thick skin, and some have a thinskin.

     The orange tree is beautiful. It has alot of shiny green leaves. The small white flowerssmellvery sweet.An orange tree has flowers and fruit / at the same time.

      There were orangetrees / twenty million years ago. The oranges were very small, / not like the ones today. The orangetree probably came from China. Many different kinds of wild oranges grow /there / today. The Chinese started to raise orange trees / around 4,400 yearsago. Chinese art has lovely old pictures of oranges and orange trees.    

   Farmersinother parts of Asia and the Middle Eastlearned to raise orangesfrom 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.

       In English,orangemeansboth a fruit and a color. We use the name of the fruit for thecolor.