Fill in the blanks with appropriate words from the passage: (a) Oranges are trees. (b) Today ___ produces 70% of the country's . (c) 90% of it is processed into juice. After Florida, and ___ are two other states where oranges are cultivated exclusively.

I. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words from the passage. a) Oranges trees are semi tropical non-deciduous* trees. b) Today, Florida produces about 70% of the country's oranges*, and about 90% of it is processed into juice. c) After Florida, California and Arizona* are two other states where oranges are cultivated exclusively. II. Find synonyms of the following word a) Costy: expensive* b) Tasty: delicious* III. Answer the following question: 1) What does a small orange offer nutritionally? A small orange offers generous levels of folic acid, potassium, thiamine, calcium, and magnesium. 2) Where did the orange originate? The orange probably originated in Southeast Asia. 3) Trace the journey of orange in the United States. Columbus brought orange seeds and seedlings to the New World. By the 1820s, thriving orange groves were established in St. Augustine, Florida. By 1910, Florida became the number one citrus growing state. In the forties, the development of frozen orange-juice concentrate led to oranges becoming the main fruit crop in the United States.