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Reading 2b

Let’s go inside and have a look!

Reading skill： Scanning

• This means moving your eyes quickly down the page to find specific information.

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• Adult pandas spend more than 12 hours a day eating about 10 kilos of bamboo.

• About 200 pandas live in zoos or research centers in China and other countries.

• Fewer than 2,000 pandas living in the remaining forests.

• 1. What is Lin Wei’s job?

• 2. What do the baby pandas eat for breakfast?

• 3. What do adult pandas eat?

• 4. Why are pandas endangered?

• 5. What is one way of saving pandas?

1. What is Lin Wei’s job?

A panda keeper in Chengdu Research Base.

2. What do the baby pandas eat for breakfast？ Milk.

3. What do adult pandas eat?？ Bamboo.

4. Why are pandas endangered?

1. There are fewer bamboo forests in China.

2. Panda do not have many babies.

3. The babies often die from illness and do not live very long.

5. What is one way of saving panda?

Teaching children about the importance

of saving them.

• 1. The panda_______ at the Chengdu Research Base are awake very early in the morning to ______ breakfast for the baby pandas.

• 2. Adult pandas do not have babies very ______, and some of the babies only live for a short time because of _______.

• 3. Another reason for fewer and fewer pandas is because people are cutting down _____________ so pandas have fewer places to live.

keepers

prepare

oftenillnesses

bamboo forests

• 4. A special program in Chengdu teaches ______ about why pandas are _________ and how to save them.

• 5. The _________________ is also helping to save the pandas. It is _______ more trees to make more homes for the pandas.

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What can we teenagers do to protect them?