Do you like to drink orange juice for breakfast?If you do, you are like many other kids. Orange juiceis a very popular drink! It is sweet and tasty. It canhelp keep you healthy, too. Let’s find out how orangejuice gets to your breakfast table!
Orange trees grow in places that are warm andsunny. When many orange trees are grown together, itis called a grove1. Oranges need lots of water to grow.Orange groves are often found near rivers. Someorange trees can grow to about 30 feet high! In thespring, the trees have white blooms2. Later, theseblooms change into oranges. An orange tree can growabout 1,200 oranges in a year! Some oranges are soldas whole fruit. But most are grown for juice.
When the oranges are big enough, they arepicked. Some of the oranges are picked by hand.Sometimes machines3 are used to pick oranges.Trucks4 filled5 with the delicious fruit are then sentto a place that makes juice.
What happens to the oranges at the juicingplant6? First, the oranges are squeezed7. Then the juice is put into bottles andcartons8. Boxes filled with the bottles and cartons are put onto big trucks. Finally, theorange juice is ready to go to stores. People can then buy and enjoy the delicious juice!
早餐你喜歡喝橙汁嗎?如果喜歡,你的口味就如其他孩童一樣。橙汁是一種非常受歡迎的飲料!它又甜又可口,還能幫助你保持健康。讓我們來(lái)看看橙汁是如何來(lái)到你的早餐餐桌上的吧!
橙樹(shù)生長(zhǎng)在溫暖和陽(yáng)光充足的地方。當(dāng)許多橙樹(shù)種植在一起時(shí),它被稱(chēng)為果園。橙子生長(zhǎng)需要大量的水。橙園經(jīng)常出現(xiàn)在河邊。有些橙樹(shù)可以長(zhǎng)到30 英尺(約9 米)高。春天,樹(shù)木會(huì)開(kāi)出白色的花朵。之后,這些花朵化成了橙子果實(shí)。一棵橙樹(shù)一年可以生長(zhǎng)約1200 個(gè)橙子!一些橙子作為整顆水果出售。但是絕大部分橙子是用來(lái)榨汁的。
當(dāng)橙子足夠大時(shí),就可以采摘了。有些橙子是人工采摘的,有時(shí)由機(jī)器來(lái)摘。裝滿(mǎn)美味水果的卡車(chē)之后被派往一個(gè)制造果汁的地方。
橙子在榨汁工廠(chǎng)會(huì)怎么樣呢?首先,橙子會(huì)被擠壓。然后果汁被裝進(jìn)瓶子和紙盒里。裝滿(mǎn)瓶子和紙盒的箱子被裝上大卡車(chē)。最后,橙汁就可以送去商店了。然后人們可以購(gòu)買(mǎi)并享受美味的果汁!
(英語(yǔ)原文選自:readingvine.com)