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    Composition: B1 The Giant Panda LIU016

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    The document discusses the giant panda, a bear species native to central China. It notes that pandas have distinctive black and white fur and eat bamboo. Their natural habitat has been threatened by deforestation, farming, and infrastructure development. While there are conservation efforts in China and abroad to help endangered panda populations, only around 2,300 pandas remain in the wild and zoos. Zoos are investing in breeding programs to help protect the species.

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    The document discusses the giant panda, a bear species native to central China. It notes that pandas have distinctive black and white fur and eat bamboo. Their natural habitat has been threatened by deforestation, farming, and infrastructure development. While there are conservation efforts in China and abroad to help endangered panda populations, only around 2,300 pandas remain in the wild and zoos. Zoos are investing in breeding programs to help protect the species.

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    The document discusses the giant panda, a bear species native to central China. It notes that pandas have distinctive black and white fur and eat bamboo. Their natural habitat has been threatened by deforestation, farming, and infrastructure development. While there are conservation efforts in China and abroad to help endangered panda populations, only around 2,300 pandas remain in the wild and zoos. Zoos are investing in breeding programs to help protect the species.

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    Composition: B1 The Giant Panda LIU016

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    The Giant Panda Lt
    Comprehension
    LIU016
    nun
    Composition

    Choose the correct word or phrase for each blank.

    Number
    The giant panda is a bear that lives in central
    China. It is special because of its black and
    white fur. Pandas belong to the most
    (1) ____________________ species of our world.
    About 2000 pandas live in the wilderness
    and 300 live in (2) __________________ zoos
    around the world.

    Recently, there have been (3) _______________


    in many countries to save the giant panda.
    The animal has been driven away from its
    natural habitat because of deforestation, intensive farming and the creation of new
    (4) ____________________.

    The giant panda can reach a height of up to 1.5 metres and weigh up to 150 kg. Pandas
    have bodies like bears, but scientists do not know why they grow a thick black and white
    (5) ____________________. It keeps them warm during the cold winter months and the white
    colour protects them from possible enemies in the snow-covered mountains in which they
    live. Pandas have large teeth, which they need to eat bamboo, their (6) ____________________
    food. Because it is low in nutritional value it does not give pandas much energy to move
    around for longer periods of time.

    Giant pandas can live up to 20 years in the wilderness and 30 years in zoos. They start
    (7) ____________________ between 4 and 8 years of age. When panda cubs are born, they are
    very tiny, only about a thousandth the size of the mother, and blind. Like all mammals, they
    get their food from their mother, whom they stay with for up to three years before being
    able to (8) ____________________ alone.

    Pandas have been an important (9) ____________________ throughout history. They first
    became known in the western world during the middle of the 19th century. In the 1960s,
    the Chinese government (10) ____________________ it had to do something to protect the
    giant pandas from becoming (11) ____________________. Since then they have set up 40
    reserves in which the animals are protected.

    In the 1970s, pandas played a role in the opening of Communist China to the west. They
    were sold to zoos in other countries. Today, about 45 pandas live in zoos outside China.
    Zoologists are putting millions of dollars into (12) ____________________ the animals in
    captivity. When they get older, they are released again into their natural habitat.

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    2 various range often fewer
    3 elections campaigns operations battles
    4 settlements settle settlers settling
    5 wool hair skin fur
    6 basic important first major
    7 copying producing reproducing repeating
    8 last outlive continue survive
    9 nature species kind sort
    10 moved realized gathered achieved
    11 extinct dead vanished disappeared
    12 making keeping breeding creating

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