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__ 16 _____ 20 _____ 50 _____ 120 _____ _____ ______ 150 ? ? ? ? ? 1. At birth, a baby panda is about ______ to _______ kilos. 2. At birth, a baby panda is about _____ cm long. 3. A baby panda is not black. It is ________ and it has no ________. 4. A panda can live up to ____ to ____ years. 1c. Listen again and plete the sentences. pink 15 teeth 20 30 1d. Take turns telling your classmates about pandas. A: A baby panda cannot see. B: An adult panda weighs many times more than a baby panda. big bamboo zoo popular cute black and white Sichuan famous endangered beautiful forest protect 2a. Talk about pandas in your class. Use these words to help you 2b. Scan the article to find out what these numbers mean: 10,12, 200, 2,000. Scanning This means moving your eyes quickly down the page to find specific information. It is 8:30 . at the Chengdu Research Base. Lin Wei and the other panda keepers are preparing the milk for the baby pandas’ breakfast. At 9:00 ., they find that most of the babies are already awake and hungry. When the babies see the keepers, they run over with excitement and some of them even walk into their friends and fall over! “ They’re so cute and lovely. I take care of them like they’re my own babies. I wash, feed and play with them every day. They’re very special to me.” Lin Wei loves her job, but it is a difficult one. Pandas do not have many babies, maybe only one every two years. The babies often die from illnesses and do not live very long. Adult pandas spend more than 12 hours a day eating about 10 kilos of bamboo. Many years ago, there were a lot more bamboo forests and pandas in China, but then humans started to cut down the forests. Scientists say there are now fewer than 2,000 pandas living in the remaining forests. Another 200 or so live in zoos or research centers in China and other countries. An education program in Chengdu teaches children in cities about pandas and other en