Блок 2. Чтение (Reading) Прочитайте тексты 5-9 и установите соответствие между текстами и вопросами А-F. Один вопрос лишний. Запишите выбранные буквы под номерами текстов. Вопросы: A. Why is a grapefruit called that when it looks nothing like a grape? B. What is a grapefruit tree like? C. What do the varieties of a grapefruit depend on? D. Who mentioned a grapefruit first? E. When is grapefruit harvested? F. Why is a grapefruit useful for the health? Тексты: 1. This question is indeed a bit of a puzzle, but the grapefruit is a strange plant even without the problem of its name. If you see grapefruit growing on a tree, you will notice that they grow in clusters. It is suggested that these clusters resemble the shape of large yellow grapes and so the fruit was called a grapefruit. Another explanation is that the premature grapefruit looks similar in shape to unripe green grapes. 2. Grapefruit was first discovered in the West Indies and introduced to Florida in the 1820s. Most grapefruit in the U.S. is still grown in Florida. John Lunan, in whose botanical work of 1814 about Jamaica, Hortus Jamaicensis, the word grapefruit first appeared in English, said of it: "There is a variety known by the name of grape-fruit, on account of its resemblance in flavour to the grape; this fruit is not near so large as the shaddock".

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