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Show ???????? ????????????????????????!,!,?? How accurate is your knowledge of lemons? If it's not very sharp, hone it on these pungent questions. 1. The average lemon tree in an orchard yields about (a) 200 (b) 500 (c) 1,500 lemons a year? 2. The practical way to judge lemons in the grocery store is by (a) weight (b) shine (c) scent? 3. Lemons with large knobs at the end have (a) more juice (b) less juice (c) a coarse pulp? 4. The man responsible for bringing lemons to the Americas was (a) Christopher Columbus (b) Vasco da Gama (c) Ferdinand Magellan? ANSWERS: 1. (c) When the 1,500 lemons are picked, harvesters har-vesters wear gloves so they won't bruise the fruit. 2. (a) The heavier the fruit, the more juice it contains. 3. (b) Beware of lemons with large knobs they will yield less juice than those with sharply pointed ends. 4. (a) Seeds carried on Columbus' ship were brought to the Caribbean islands, and ' later the fruit was transported to other Spanish colonies. |