The panda is one of the animals most in danger. Three are about 1,000 pandas living in nature reserves today. Zoos and research centers look after about 160 pandas. Scientists are studying how they live and more baby pandas are born in the zoos.
Pandas live in the forests and mountains of Southern China. They mainly live on bamboo, and each pandas needs to eat a lot of bamboo every day. The area of bamboo is becoming smaller for many different reasons, so pandas have less and less land to live on. Pandas don’t have many babies, and baby panda often dies. The situation is becoming very serious.
Our government is working hard to save pandas. There are more than 30 nature reserves to protect pandas but these are not enough. The government has made a new plan to help pandas. The nature reserves will be bigger and the bamboo will grow better. Then the pandas will have enough food and enough places to live in. Pandas born in the zoos may go back to live in the nature reserves.
Most people love pandas. The panda is one of the best-known animals in the world. It is the symbol for the World Wide Fund for Nature. The WWF works to protect all animals in danger, so the panda has become the symbol of all animals in danger. There is still a long way to save the panda. Think of other animals in danger. There is still a long way to go to save the panda. Think of other animals in danger such as tigers, whales, turtles and elephants—and we need to save them, too.
【小题1】 There are about ___ pandas living in the nature reserves today.

A．30

B．160

C．300

D．1,000

【小题2】 Paragraph 2 is mainly about ___.

A．why pandas are in danger	B．why baby pandas often die
C．how to protect all animals	D．how to plant more bamboo

【小题3】 The government is trying ___ to help the pandas.

A．to build more zoos

B．to send more scientists

C．to make bigger nature reserves

D．to ask the WWF to work in China

【小题4】 ___ is the symbol for the World Wide Fund for Nature.

A．The Tiger

B．The panda

C．The elephant

D．The Whale

The giant panda is one of the most popular animals in the world. A giant panda can grow up to 1.5 meters long and weigh up to 160kg. People think the giant panda is very lovely. ①So it is not surprising that the World Wide Fund for Nature chose the giant panda as its symbol.The WWF tells people about animals that they are in danger and raises money to save them.
The giant panda only lives in the wild in China. In the early 1980s, were only 1,000 left in the wild. The main reason why pandas are endangered is that the area where pandas can live has become smaller.
The WWF works to help giant pandas in the wild in many ways. One of the ways that helps them is to increase the size of panda reserves(自然保护区). Some reserves need to be joined together by planting bamboo between them to make “corridors”. These are paths that lead from one reserve to another. No one may harm the pandas in these areas. The corridors let pandas move from one habitat(栖息地) to another to look for food. ②People are working very hard to make sure the giant panda does not die out.
【小题1】 How long and heavy can a giant panda grow to be?
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【小题2】 将文中划线的句子①改为被动句。
So it is not surprising that _____________________by the World Wide Fund for Nature.
【小题3】Why are the giant pandas endangered?
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【小题4】 Give a way to help the giant pandas in the wild, please.
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【小题5】 将文中划线的句子②翻译成中文。
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The panda is one of the animals most in danger. There are about 1,000 pandas living in nature reserves today. Zoos and research centers look after about 160 pandas. Scientists are studying how they live and more baby pandas are born in the zoos.
Pandas live in the forests and mountains of Southwest China. They mainly live on bamboo, and each panda needs to eat a lot of bamboo every day. The area of bamboo is becoming smaller for many different reasons, so pandas have less and less land to live on. Pandas don’t have many babies, and baby pandas often die. The situation is becoming very serious.
Our government is working hard to save pandas. There are more than 30 nature reserves to protect pandas but these are not enough. The government has made a new plan to help pandas. The nature reserves will be bigger and the bamboo will grow better. Then the pandas will have enough food to eat and enough places to live in. Pandas born in the zoos may go back to live in the nature reserves.
Most people love pandas. The panda is one of the best-known animals in the world. It is the symbol for the World Wide Fund for Nature. The WWF works to protect all animals in danger, so the panda has become the symbol of all animals in danger. There is still a long way to go to save the panda. Think of other animals in danger such as tigers ,whales, turtles and elephant—we need to save the panda, and we need to save them, too.
【小题1】Paragraph 2 is mainly about________.

A．why pandas are in danger

B．why baby pandas often die

C．how to protect all animals

D．how to plant more bamboo

【小题2】The government is trying ________to help the pandas.

A．to build more zoos

B．to send more scientists

C．to make bigger nature reserves

D．to ask the WWF to work in China.

【小题3】________is the symbol for the World Wide Fund for Nature.

A．The tiger

B．The panda

C．The elephant

D．The whale

The Clockwork Radio
The British inventor Trevor Baylis created this really clever ′wind-up radio′ for people from Third World countries. in some parts of the Third World countries, it’s very hard for people to get or pay for enough energy. This radio uses no batteries (电池) and does not need any electricity to run it. A clockwork generator (发电机) is put inside the radio and works as the power. When it is fully wound up (上弦), the radio can work for long periods.

The clock work product is not a new invention. The Victorians had already put it in wide use. We may find them used in toys as well. Then what is new about this clockwork radio? Baylis has used this simple but effective (高效的) way of creating electricity to both help the people of the Third World and to develop a product which is selling well in Western Europe.
Even former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandella has one of these radios and personally recommends this product to others.
【小题1】What does the clockwork radio use to run it?

A．Batteries.	B．Electricity.
C．A clockwork generator.	D．Wind power.

【小题2】The Third World countries are      in the world.

A．the rich countries	B．the poor countries
C．Western European	D．Victorian countries

【小题3】Which sentence is true according to the passage?

A．the clockwork radio can work for only a short period of time.

B．Trevor Baylis created the world’s first clockwork product.

C．The clockwise radio is also a toy for people of the Third World.

D．Nelson Mandella owns one of the clockwork radios.