题目内容：

八、短文缺词填空，每空一词（共10分，每空1分）

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 h1.to eat them.

The orange tree is not t 2.. It looks small but beautiful. An orange tree has a lot of shiny green l    3.. Its small white flowers smell very sweet. You can see flowers and fruit on the tree at the s     4.time. Do you think it is very interesting?

There were orange trees about twenty million years ago. But the fruit were very s5., not like the big ones we eat today. People think the orange trees came

f6.China. The Chinese started to plant orange trees around 2400 BC. In the old days,

Chinese artists liked drawing p7.of lovely oranges and orange trees.

Farmers in other parts of Asia and the world started to l    8.    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 t9.Florida (佛罗里达) first. The orange is a very important fruit in Florida today.

The word “orange” is b10.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.