Suppose (假定) every person on the Earth ate only one kind of food. And maybe one year that food
couldn't __1__. If that happened, man would soon __2__. Luckily, man doesn't __3__ that problem.
But another animal may. The animal is the giant (巨大的) panda, one of the world's most-loved animals.
Dr. Thomas Soderstrom, a scientist, has __4__ for the first time that the bamboo (竹子) the giant pandas
eat is dying. As a result, many of the pandas are also dying of being __5__. Scientists estimate (估计)
that so far more than 140 giant pandas have died. This number may be __6__ one-quarter of the
world's giant panda population. Between 400 and 1000 giant pandas are __7__ to live in the mountains.
Giant pandas were once more __8__all over many parts of Asia (亚洲). Now they are only in small
parts of China. Can the wild pandas be __9__? The scientists want to find out more about the animals'
food. They want to see whether the pandas are able to 10 their food while the bamboo is dying. |
( ) 1. A. found
( ) 2. A. break
( ) 3. A. want
( ) 4. A. found
( ) 5. A. cold
( ) 6. A. almost
( ) 7. A. thought
( ) 8. A. big
( ) 9. A. kept
( ) 10. A. have | B. be found
B. live
B. work
B. invented
B. tired
B. already
B. believed
B. liked
B. saved
B. catch | C. founded
C. die
C. answer
C. known
C. hungry
C. hardly
C. seen
C. interesting
C. made
C. change | D. be founded
D. lose
D. face
D. studied
D. ill
D. really
D. said
D. common
D. taken
D. get |
