Reading and vocabulary

阅读与词汇

Say what you know about pandas.

说说你对熊猫的了解。

22 部分翻译

Read the passage and match the headings with the paragraphs.

读短文，并把标题和段落搭配起来。

a) Nature parks for pandas

为大熊猫建立的自然公园

b) WWF and animals in danger

世界自然基金会和濒危动物

c) The panda's home

大熊猫的家园

d)An animalin danger

一种濒危动物

1

Pandas are in danger. There are only about 1, 600 pandas in the wild today. Zoos and research centres are looking after about 340 pandas.Pandas do not have many babies, and baby pandas often die. The situation is getting very difficult. Scientists are doing a lot of research to help pandas produce more babies and help baby pandas live.

1

大熊猫处于濒危状态。现在，野生大熊猫仅有大约1 600只。动物园和研究中心照管着约340只大熊猫。大熊猫产崽不多，而且大熊猫幼崽经常夭折。形势正变得很严峻。科学家们正在做犬量的研究工作来帮助大熊猫多产崽，并帮助幼崽生存下来。

2

Pandas live in the forests and moun- tains of Southwest China. Each panda needs to eat a lot of bamboo every day. The bamboo forests are getting smaller, so pandas are losing their home.

2

大熊猫生活在中国西南部的森林和深山中。每只大熊猫每天要吃很多竹子。竹林正在不断地减小，所以大熊猫正在失去它们的家园。

3

In order to protect pandas in the wild, the government is setting up nature parks and developing other plans. The nature parks will be big and there will be more bamboo to feed the pandas. Pandas born in zoos may go back to live in the nature parks.

3

为了保护野生大熊猫，政府正在建造自然公园，也在制订其他的计划。自然公园的面积将会很大，会有更多的竹子来喂养大熊猫。在动物园里出生的大熊猫也可能回到自然公园里生活。

4

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) wants to protect all animals. And it chose the panda to be its symbol. We do not want to lose tigers, elephants or any other animals, so the WWF is working hard to save them all.

4

世界自然基金会(WWF)想要保护所有的动物。而且它选择大熊猫作为其标志。我们不想失去老虎、大象和其他任何动物，因此世界自然基金会正在努力工作以拯救所有的动物。

Learning to learn

学会学习

Sometimes you can learn new words through translation. For example, when you learn "government" , you can take a card and write the English word on one side and the Chinese on the other. Practise saying "government" and check that you remember the meaning.

有时你可以通过翻译来学习生词。例如，当你学习“government”时，你可以拿一张卡片，在一面写上英语单词，在另一面写上汉语。练习说“government”，并检查你（是否）记住它的意思。