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PANDAS
Pandas are large animals with a big head, a heavy body, rounded ears and a short tail. They
are famous for their black and white markings. The legs, shoulders and oval patches around the
eyes are black, and the rest of the coat is white. They have thick, oily, woolly fur. It is waterproof,
and keeps them warm in cold forests.
Male pandas are large. Adult male pandas are 100 centimeters long, and weigh about 100
kilograms, but female ones are 80 centimeters long. They rarely reach 90 kilograms.
Females often give birth to two babies. They are called cubs. Usually one of them dies. A
newborn cub weighs 85 to 140 grams. It is pink, hairless and blind. Its eyes open when they are 6 to
7 weeks old. Cubs grow very slowly. They stay with their mother for two years.
Pandas live in cold and rainy bamboo forests high in the mountains of western China. They
move to low places during cold winter months to keep warm, and to high mountains in summer to
stay cool. There is food all year round in these forests, and they need to eat 18-20 kilograms of food
every day, so they never hibernate in the winter. Bamboo is the most important plant in their life,
and they love it. They use their front paw to hold the bamboo, so they usually eat while sitting. They
spend at least 12 hours each day eating bamboo. Pandas need a lot of water. They get much of this
water from bamboo, but they also need to
drink fresh water from rivers almost every
day.
There are about 1,600 pandas left
in the wild, and about 160 pandas live in
zoos and breeding centers around the
world, mostly in China. Scientists are not
sure how long pandas live in the wild, but
they are sure these animals live longer in
zoos than in the wild. There are zoo
pandas as old as 35 years of age.
TASK A: What do the following words refer to in the text?
1. ones (para.2) : ________________
2. them (para.3) : ________________
3. they (para.5) : _______________________
TASK B: Mark the statements TRUE, FALSE or NO INFO.
1. ______________A baby panda cannot see when it is born.
2. ______________Pandas usually do not eat while standing.
3. ______________In some countries people believe that pandas bring bad luck.
4. ______________Bamboo provides all the necessary water for pandas.
5. ______________There are about 1,600 pandas all over the world.
6. ______________ All pandas live at least 35 years.
TASK C: Answer the following questions shortly.
1.
What keeps pandas warm in the cool forests?
2.
Why don’t they hibernate in the winter?
3.
What is their favorite food?
TASK D: Match the definitions with the underlined words in the text.
1. ___________________ (n) the time when a baby comes out of its mother's body.
2. ___________________ (n) a living thing which grows in earth and usually has a stem, leaves,
roots and flowers and produces seeds.
3. ___________________ (v) to spend the winter sleeping.
4. ___________________ (n) a small area which is different in some way from the area that
surrounds it.
5. ___________________ (n) the thick hair that covers the bodies of some animals.