Find in the text the giant panda words and word combinations which mean the same

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THE GIANT PANDA HELPdesk.com

An endangered species, the giant panda can only be found in the mountain bamboo forests ofWestern China. There are only about 1,000 wild giant pandas left in the world. Giant pandas are members of the bear family, and they are mammals. Even though giant pandas look just like bears, they certainly do not behave like bears. Unlike their meat-eating relatives, giant pandas are vegetarians for the most part of their time. Their favourite food is bamboo. Giant pandas must eat a lot of bamboo everyday to get enough nourishment. In fact, they spend at least 12 hours everyday eating about33 poundsof bamboo. However, if they are extremely hungry and bamboo is nowhere to be found, giant pandas may eat grass, fruits, or sometimes, small animals like chicken.

Giant pandas do not live in groups. They are loners! They only leave their territory from March to May to look for a mate. Female giant pandas usually give birth to twins. Baby giant pandas are very small, blind, pinkish, and weigh about5 ouncesat birth. Strangely, mother giant pandas tend to choose to raise just one baby and leave the other to die. Mother giant pandas feed their babies with milk. A baby giant panda opens its eyes at six to seven weeks. It starts to learn how to walk when it is about three or four months old. Mother giant pandas look after their babies for about 18 months. Once the young is strong enough, it bids farewell to its mother and moves out

to live independently. (1201) *

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Questions:

1.Where do pandas live?

2.What class of animals do they belong to?

3.What is the main difference between giant pandas and bears?

4.Why do young giant pandas leave their mothers when they are about 18 months?

5.Are there any other endangered species in the world? What are they?

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Read the text again for more detailed information and find in the text words and word combinations which mean:

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Find in the text words and word combinations which have a similar meaning to the following:

• a review, an investigation

• various kinds of

• is finished

• most of

• it’s usual

• it is difficult to …

• moreover

• to annoy

• the aim of

Once
every eighty to a hundred years the bamboo forests in China’s
Sichuan Province burst into flowers and then die off. And that’s
bad news for the Giant Panda, which depends for its survival on huge
amounts of bamboo. But that’s just one of the problems facing the
Panda.

To
ensure that it has a future it is vital to preserve the complex
eco-system in which it lives, to carry out research into its dietary
needs and investigate possible alternatives, discover the reasons
for its low reproduction rate, to study the problem of internal
parasites- all these factors and many more threaten its survival.

Destruction
of the environment, killing of animals for their skins or food, are
just some of the problems that animals face. The number of animals
that risk becoming extinct is increasing every day.

2 .Now look at the article’s headline and guess whether these sentences are true (t) or false (f).

3. Match the following synonyms from the article.

4. Listen and fill in the spaces. New Highways Threaten Giant Pandas.

There
is a new _______ to the survival of the giant panda. The rapid
construction of China’s national highway network is _______ the
pandas’ natural habitat into many small pieces. This is destroying
the bamboo forests that the _______ animals need to survive. It is
also adding a new danger of being ____ _____ by cars and trucks. The
China
Daily
newspaper reported the biggest threat to the animal is in the
northwest province of Gansu. There are now ______ than fifty pandas
there. Conservationists are _________ to preserve them. They are
building special panda crossings and tunnels to help them _________.

The
biggest problem is the dividing of the pandas’ ________ into
smaller areas. The growth of the highways now makes _________ even
more difficult. The China
Daily
reports that: “According to basic principles of ________ and the
pandas’ reproduction habits, a group of less than 50 giant pandas
are predicted to become ________ at some point as a result of a
weakening reproductive ability caused by inbreeding.” There are
only two days of the year when the female panda is ________. This
problem is made worse because of the males’ ______ ___ interest in
sex and the females’ being too picky in choosing her Mr. Right.

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