上海市2022届高三英语自然科学类语法填空.docVIP

The nutmeg tree, Myristica fragrans, is a large evergreen tree native to Southeast Asia. Until the late 18th century, ____1_____ only grew in one place in the world: a small group of islands in the Banda Sea, part of the Moluccas – or Spice Islands – in northeastern Indonesia. The tree is thickly ____2_____(branch) with dense foliage of tough, dark green oval leaves, and produces small, yellow, bell-shaped flowers and pale yellow pear-shaped ____3_____(fruit). The fruit is encased in a ____4_____(flesh) husk. When the fruit is ripe, this husk splits into two halves ____5_____ a ridge running t