In China, you can buy a bunchbunch/bʌntʃ/L1一束a group of things that are held together of roses for just 14 yuan. The flowers come from farms in Yunnan in the southwest. You pay on your phone, and the flowers traveltravel/ˈtrævəl/L1旅行;出行to go from one place to another more than 2,000 kilometers to your home for free. Fresh flowers can die fast, so they must move quickly.
A big sorting center in Kunming sorts 20,000 flower parcels every hour. Then, trucks, trains, and planes take them to cities all over the country. Most flowers arrivearrive/əˈraɪv/L1到达to get to a place at your door in just 48 hours.
This systemsystem/ˈsɪstəm/L1系统;体系a group of things that work together to do something is amazing. A cheap gift can travel so far and so fast. It makes people happy to get freshfresh/frɛʃ/L1新鲜的new or just made; not old or spoiled flowers.



