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Fruit

Imagine a world without fruit. We wouldn’t be very healthy. We get a lot of important vitamins from eating fruit.

We think of fruit primarily as something to eat. But fruit has a purpose quite apart from our needs. Fruit is part of a flowering plant and it carries the seeds. The purpose of fruit is to protect a plant’s seeds and help them get spread about. Wind and water spread seeds. So do animals when they eat fruit and drop the seeds. Then the seeds grow into new plants.

There are two main types of fruit: fleshy and dry. Fleshy fruits are soft and juicy. Pears, bananas and apples are all fleshy fruits. . Dry fruits are thin and hard. Grains like wheat and rice, or nuts like chestnuts (板栗), are dry fruits.

But wait: You’ve eaten oranges and grapes without seeds. How can they be fruits? It’s because people have changed the way they grow fruit. They can now grow seedless fruit. Seedless fruit comes from special plants that are made by combining two varieties of a fruit to form a new variety. These special plants grow and produce seeds. But the plants grown from these seeds are seedless. These plants cannot reproduce themselves. They can make fruit, but the fruit has no seeds.

Fruits are a source of substances that keep us alive and healthy. So people make use of fruits for many foods. We make juices from them. We make jams and sweets. We even make alcohol from fruit. Beer comes from grains and wine comes from grapes, and some particular wines are made from apples, peaches, or other fruits.

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想象一个没有水果的世界。我们的健康状况不会太好。我们通过吃水果获取许多重要的维生素。

我们主要把水果看作食物。但水果的作用不仅仅是为了满足我们的需求。水果是开花植物的一部分，它携带种子。水果的目的是保护植物的种子并帮助它们传播。风和水可以传播种子。当动物吃掉水果并排放种子时，种子也会被传播开来。然后这些种子会长成新的植物。

水果主要分为两大类：肉质水果和干果。肉质水果柔软多汁。梨、香蕉和苹果都是肉质水果。干果则薄而硬。像小麦和大米这样的谷物，或像板栗这样的坚果，都是干果。

但是等等：你吃过无籽的橙子和葡萄。它们怎么可能是水果？这是因为人们改变了种植水果的方式。他们现在可以种植无籽水果。无籽水果来自于通过将两种水果品种结合形成的新品种。这些特殊的植物生长并产生种子。但是从这些种子生长出来的植物是无籽的。这些植物不能自行繁殖。它们能结出果实，但果实中没有种子。

水果是使我们保持生命和健康的物质的来源。因此，人们利用水果制作许多食品。我们用它们榨汁。我们制成果酱和糖果。我们甚至用水果酿酒。啤酒来自谷物，葡萄酒来自葡萄，而某些特定的酒是用苹果、桃子或其他水果制成的。