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Tara and Ryan are at the apple orchard.

They help harvest apples.

They find the apples that are ripe and ready to be picked.

Ryan climbs up the ladder and picks the apples.

Tara puts the apples into her basket.

They are very good helpers!

Question:

1.    Where are Tara and Ryan? à

2.    What do they do there? 

3.    Who climbs up the ladder? 

4.    Why does Ryan climb up the ladder? 

5.    Where does Tara put the apples? 

If you had your own apple orchard, it means you have a busy, year-around job. Apple growers schedule tasks all year long in order to have a good harvest in the fall and to get the apples to your grocery store while they are still fresh. Early in the spring, you will be out in the orchard fertilizing the trees and planting new trees. Maybe you are just replacing a few old trees that no longer produce many apples, or maybe you are adding rows of trees to enlarge your orchard or to try a new variety of apples. Soon the trees begin to show their pink and white blooms. Don’t spend too much time admiring the flowers! You need to rent some bee hives to pollinate all of your trees. You don’t want your trees to grow lots of tiny apples. You want to grow nice big ones, so after the blooms fade you start checking your trees to see if the buds need to be thinned. Maybe you will thin them by hand, or maybe you will use chemicals to do the job.

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The apple, a juicy fruit that grows from pink or white flowers, is cultivated widely in orchards across North America. At least two varieties of apples are cultivated together in one orchard due to the fact that the flowers of one type of apple tree must be pollinated by a different variety of apple. The point in the springtime when the apple blossoms appear is  the most critical time for apples: there hạve to be enough bees to pollinate each flower and warm enough weather to facilitate their work. Apple growers watch the temperatures anxiously at this time of year because frozen flowers or fruit spells disaster for the crop. Workers may have to get up at any hour of the night to blow away the cold air with fans, heat title orchard air with fire pots, or wet the trees down to keep the frost away.

The first step in getting apples from orchard to market is to pick them. The picking must be done carefully to ensure that the spur, which produces the fruit, is not damaged. Apples used to be collected in bushel baskets and taken to market, but today bins of apples are trucked to packing houses, where they go through many sortings before they get to title grocery store display. Packers use water to float the apples through sorting machines. As a first step, the smallest apples, called “chops,” are eliminated to make juice. Apples with many flaws, or imperfections, are called “processors”: they are used for pie slices or are made into, sauce because of their less-than-perfect appearance. The “fancy” grade apples are stored in a controlled atmosphere; adjusting the oxygen content from 20 percent to 2 percent and keeping the temperature between 31 and 32 degrees Fahrenheit keeps the apples alive but prevents overripening. The humidity is kept around 95 percent so that the apples remain crisp and fresh. Before shipping, the apples are washed, rinsed, dried, and coated with a thin film of hot wax for beautification.

Once title apples have cleared the marketplace, they are put to various uses. Apples are 87 percent water, making them great for juicing. The fresh juice that is made from apples is called cider, and this cider can be fermented into applejack. Apples are not only used to make beverages; they can also be used to make products such as apple butter, vinegar, applesauce, and one of America’s favorite desserts, apple pie.

43.  Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?

A.    Apple Growers

B.     From the Apple Orchard to Your Table

C.     How to Make Applejack

D.    The Invention of the Bushel Basket

44.  According to the passage, why are two varieties of apples cultivated together?

A.    The orchards look better with two different colors of flowers.

B.     Two varieties of apples are necessary for cross-pollination.

C.     Orchards with two varieties of apples are less likely to freeze.

D.    Bees are more likely to live in orchards with two varieties of apples.

45.  The word “spells” in line 8 is closest in meaning to which of the following?

A. lists                       B. letters            C. brings             D. means

46.  It is mentioned in the passage that if an apple is not picked carefully………..

   A. the spur can become damaged                                B. the tree will die

   C. the leaves will become discolored                          D. fire pots will be needed

47.  It can be inferred from paragraph 2 that an apple with “flaws” is not ………...

A. tasty                      B. usable           C. faultless         D. edible

48.  Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage as a process that apples go through?

A. Picking                 B. Sorting          C. Chopping      D. Shipping

49.  The word “coated” in line 22 could best be replaced by………..

A. covered                B. warmed        C. sent                 D. packed

50.  The word “atmosphere” in line 18 could best be replaced by………...

A. environment        B. air                  C. storage           D. container

51.  The temperature is kept between 31 and 32 degrees Fahrenheit …………..

A.     to prevent the apple from overripening

B.     for the humidity to remain around 95%

C.   to maintain the crispness and freshness of the apples

D.  for oxygen content to remain unchanged

52.  The paragraph following the passage most probably discusses   .

    A.  how apples taste                                     B. the growing season of apples

      C.  how to make an apple pie                    D. the price of apples

24. Apples are usually cheaper than oranges.

=> Apple are not...................

25. I advice you to put your money in the bank.

=> You’d........................

26. That restaurant is so dirty that no one wants to eat there.

=> It is such.........................................

27. I’ll pick the children up if you like.

=> Would you.....................................

28. He objected to the fact that his secretary came to work late.

=> He was annoyed...............................

Read the story. Fill in the blank with one suitable word.

John's parents gave him a red drum for his eight birthday. When John (0)...opened....his present early that morning, he was very (1)..................to see a drum inside! He started to play it very loudly. He played it all morning and then after lunch he wanted to play it again. But his mum felt ill. She had a bad (2)......... because John and his drum were so noisy. His dad said, "John, if you want to play your drum, go outside please." John went into the garden and played his drum there. After fives minutes, he (3)................some lovely music. He went out into the street and saw a lot of people there. It was the circus! They drove into town in their lories and trucks. The (4)................of the first truck stopped when he saw John. John jumped on the back of the truck and (5)................ into town with them. He played his drum all the way there!