Pandas live in the forests and mountains of Southwest China. They mainly   1  bamboo, and each panda   2 a lot of bamboo every day. The area of bamboo is becoming smaller for many different   3 ,so pandas have  4  land to live  5  . Pandas don’t have many babies, and baby pandas often   6 . The situation is becoming very serious.
Our government is working hard to save pandas. There are more than 30 natures reserves to protect pandas but these are not enough. The government has made a new plan   7 pandas. The nature reserves will be bigger and the bamboo will grow 8  .Then the pandas will have enough food to eat and enough places to live in. Pandas born in the zoos may   9 live in the nature reserves.
Most people love pandas. The panda is one of the best-known   10  in the world. It is the symbol for the World Wide Fund for Nature.

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1     The panda is one of the animals most in danger．There are about 1000 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．

2     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．

3     Our government is working hard to save pandas．There are more than 30 nature reserves to protect pandas but these ate not enough．The government has made new plans 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．

4     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 woks 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 and elephants—we need to save the panda，and we need to save them，too．

1．Match the 4 headings with the 4 paragraphs（段落与段落大意连线）．

A．Help for pandas                                  Paragraph l

B．Pandas help other animals                     Paragraph 2

C．The panda's home                               Paragraph 3

D．The panda in danger                            Paragraph 4

2．What is the number of the pandas living in China today?

3．Describe the serious situation of pandas including the land and babies．

4．How has the government planned to help pandas?

5．Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph．

The panda is one of the animals most in danger. There are about 1,000 pandas living in nature reserves today. Zoos and research centres look after about 160 pandas. Scientists are studying how they live and more baby pandas are born in the zoo.

　 Pandas live in the forests and mountains of south-west 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 and 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 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 most famous animals in the world. It is the symbol(象征) 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 the 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-we need to save the pandas, and we need to save

them, too.

(　 )51. 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

(　 )52. 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

(　 )53. ______ is the symbol for the World Wide Fund for Nature.

A. The tiger　　　　　　　 　 B. The panda

C. The elephant　　　　　 　 D. The whale

(　 )54. The best title for this passage is ' ______'.

A. Wild animals　　　　　 B. What is WWF

C. Pandas in the world　　　 D. Pandas in danger