Bananas are the perfect snack.Not only are they sweet and delicious,but they are easy to carry around, so you can take them anywhere.Best of all,bananas provide different things that the human body needed.

Bananas grow best in warm places that get lots of rain.They grow on plants that look like trees.The banana plant,however,is considered a herb rather than a tree because it doesn't have a strong ,woody stem.The plants can grow as high as 30 feet.When they reach their full height,flowers grow out from the stem. These flowers produce bananas.

Two or three times each year,the plants produce fruit.The bananas grow together,which seem like hands.A hand is made up of 10 to 20 bananas.Growers sometimes call bananas fingers.Each bunch(丛)of bananas has about 15 hands,and so a whole bunch may have as many as 200 bananas and can weigh more than 100 pounds.

After about three months,the bananas are ready to be picked.At this point,they still aren't the sunny yellow colour of bananas.Farmers pick them when they're green.That's how they're shipped to stores.They turn yellow along the way and are ready to be sold.

If you love bananas,you've got a lot of company.Americans have been enjoying bananas since the first shipment arrived in the United States in 1876.Today,Americans eat more bananas than any fruit.More bananas are sold than apples and grapes together.Every American eats over 26 pounds of bananas each year!

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1.Growers sometimes call bananas______________

2.According to the bar chart, ___________are the second most popular fruit in America.

3.Why is the banana plant considered a herb rather than a tree?

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4._____________________________________________________.

5._______________________________________________________

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In the middle of my home country there are very large places. They are hot and dry land called deserts1.Families live a long way from other people. Sometimes they are the only people for thousands of kilometers.2.

About 65 years ago these people found that using strong radios was a possible way for families living far away to communicate with each other.They decided they could use the radios for school. In this way, children could talk to each other like at school.3.

The children each spent about 30 minutes a day on the radio. They talked to their teacher about their work and difficulties.The teacher designed some exercises and tasks based on what they learned and posted them to the children. After finishing their work, the children sent it back to their teacher to mark. 4. He tried to visit each child twice each year. This was sometimes difficult.The journey was very long and could be dangerous.In addition, the school held camps once a year.The children could all meet each other and shared their learning experience.

5.The government provides families with computers so that the children can use the Internet to talk to their teachers and classmates by e-mail now. The teachers enjoy their work very much because they get to know the children and their families very well. It is an interesting way to learn;don't you think so?

A.The teacher also travelled around the country.

B.All over the deserts are farms and small towns.

C.Children in poor areas can't go to school.

D.These families' children cannot go to school like you.

E.With the development of technology, computers are becoming popular.

F.This was how the first “School of the Air” started.

G.It is impossible to do so.

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