Have you ever wondered how blueberries grow? They grow on bushes. Each blueberry is small and round. Dozens of blueberries can grow on a single bush. At first, the blueberries are green. This means they are not ready to eat yet. They require a great amount of sun and rain to help them become fat and sweet. When the berries turn blue, they are ripe and ready to be harvested.
Some farmers grow hundreds of blueberries in big fields. The people living nearby can earn money by helping to pick the blueberries. Each one takes a pail out to the field and fills it with blueberries. They work fast so that they can fill many pails. They want to get as much money as they can. When the harvest is over, their fingers turn blue from the juice of the berries!
After picked, they are put into boxes and sent to stores. People buy the blueberries and take them home to eat. Some people like to wash the berries and eat them one by one. Other people like to cook with blueberries, for example, muffins and pancakes. No matter how you eat them, blueberries taste wonderful!
The word "earn" in the second paragraph means _________.
take
pay
give
make