I am an apple. I'm a kind of sweet fruit. You can find me grow (生长) in many places of the world, but I
can't grow well in very hot places or very cold places.
       I am not like my cousins — pears and bananas. I am rounder than a pear, and bananas are longer than me.
I am delicious, so people all over the world like to eat me. They can eat me after they wash me.They can also
cook me and put me in cans (罐头) to send me to other places of the world. I cost very little money so almost
everyone can have money to buy me. I can also help people healthy. There is a saying in English: An apple a day
keeps the doctor away. Don't you think that I'm very great? I really wish to make you happy and healthy.
       But, I also need your love. If you want to make me taste better, you must take good care of me. Thank you
for your love, I'll try to grow well and become more sweet. Then you will like to eat me a lot more.

1. The writer thinks that the banana is the apple's ________.

A. brother
B. cousin
C. sister
D. father

2. Apples can grow everywhere except (除了) ________.

A. very cold places
B. very hot places
C. very wet (湿) places
D. A and B

3. What does the underlined (划线) sentence (句子) mean (意思)?

A. An apple doesn't like a doctor
B. An apple doesn't need a doctor
C. Doctors don't eat apples
D. Eating an apple every day can keep us healthy

4. How many kinds of fruit are mentioned (提到) in the passage (短文)?

A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

5. Which of the following is NOT true ?

A. An apple is a kind of sweet fruit.
B. People all over the world like to eat apples.
C. Apples cost much money.
D. Apples are rounder than pears, and shorter than bananas.