According to officials in China, the giant panda is no longer listed as endangered. After working for many years to increase 【小题1】 (they) numbers, there are now more than 1800 giant pandas 【小题2】live in the wild. The International Union for Conservation of Nature 【小题3】 (remove) the giant panda from the endangered list in 2016. At the time, Chinese officials didn’t agree with the 【小题4】 (decide). However, now they do. China has worked for decades to increase the number of these black and white bears because they are regarded 【小题5】 national treasures. China has worked to enlarge the pandas’ habitat. They have also made sure that there is plenty of bamboo for them to eat by 【小题6】 (plant) more bamboo forests. This has helped increase the number of pandas and stop them from dying out China will continue to support the giant panda population. Alongside efforts 【小题7】 (increase) the number of giant pandas in the wild, zoos around the world have breeding programmes. These 【小题8】 (design) to help increase the number of giant pandas which in captivity (圈养). 【小题9】 (hopeful) the giant panda will have 【小题10】bright future with continued conservation efforts. We certainly hope so. We couldn’t bear to lose them.

Lions seem to use yawns (哈欠) to send【小题1】 (signal) to each other. The observation provides the first concrete evidence 【小题2】 yawning can synchronize (使同步) behavior in an animal species.

Elisabetta Palagi, from the University of Pisa in Italy, 【小题3】(intend) to study another animal. But when her students were collecting data in South Africa, they started sending 【小题4】(she) videos of lions as well. Watching the videos, Palagi couldn’t help but notice how the lions 【小题5】(keep) yawning one after another and then got up and moved in near synchrony.

She asked her students to focus on 19 lions 【小题6】(live) in two social groups. They took nearly 5 hours of video per lion over a four-month period. The team found that when 【小题7】single lion yawned and another lion could see it do so, the second lion started to yawn within 3 minutes of the first. The chance 【小题8】the second lion yawning within the 3-minute window was 139 times higher than it would have been if the first lion hadn’t yawned. The team also realized that the yawns led to actions, 【小题9】usually involved getting up and walking away. The lions were 11 times 【小题10】 (likely) to synchronize their next moves with the first lion following a spell of yawning.

Pets aren’t just hairy toys for your children. Recently it 【小题1】 (prove) that animals play a great role in the child’s identity development. They get on well with children and love them sincerely, because they aren’t so impatient 【小题2】 many adults can be. It seems to me that there 【小题3】(be) some kind of link between pets and kids. Pets can help parents train 【小题4】(responsible), self-confidence and carefulness in children.

Pets often act as 【小题5】 caring family member. Those children 【小题6】 family has no brothers or sisters sometimes feel lonely, especially when parents are at work or busy with their housework. Children have a chance 【小题7】 (talk) to the pet or share their feelings, which gives 【小题8】 (they) a big relief from stress and worries. The children attach great importance 【小题9】 being together with pets. Let your child grow up with a nice and 【小题10】 (devote) pet. It doesn’t matter, whether it’s a dog, cat or fish. Everything depends on the type of the child’s character.