Can you imagine kangaroo meat as 【小题1】 source of meat for Australians? Kangaroo meat 【小题2】 (eat) by aboriginal Australians. 【小题3】 time went by, with more and more people moving to the cities, the meat became less popular. However, there 【小题4】 (be) a push to bring it back to dinner tables lately. This is 【小题5】 (large) due to the benefits of the meat.

Kangaroo meat is lean(脂肪少的) and has less than 2% fat. 【小题6】 addition, the BBC noted that kangaroos produce less methane (甲烷) than other 【小题7】 (animal), so they are considered to be more environmentally friendly.

However, despite all these benefits, most Australians still refuse 【小题8】 (eat) it. Also, it may make 【小题9】 (they) feel strange to eat kangaroo. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, a popular TV series, is another reason 【小题10】 they may feel uncomfortable eating the meat.

Have you ever seen a honeybee in the winter? Most people in temperate (温和的) climates 【小题1】 (probable) have not. When temperatures in the winter drop below 10℃, honeybees, without blankets, fires, 【小题2】 adjustable thermostats (恒温器), return to 【小题3】 (they) hives, forming a winter cluster for warmth — sort of like a giant three-month slumber party in the winter.

The fate of the hive 【小题4】 (depend) on how sufficiently the winter population has prepared for the cold. 【小题5】 (keep) warm and survive, the honeybee swarm (蜂群) must have a strong population of winter-ready bees, plentiful stores of honey to eat, and a secure hive. A successful winter cluster is made up of a generation of bees, 【小题6】 have a longer lifespan (寿命) to last the whole winter.

The social world of honeybees is normally divided into three 【小题7】 (variety): workers, drones, and queens. 【小题8】, the male drones die off in the winter, 【小题9】 (leave) only the female workers and the queen. To maintain a survivable heat, the all-female swarm of bees crowds together tightly to form the winter cluster, with the queen at the warmest place, the 【小题10】 (centre) section of the group, and the workers shaking around.

Two giant pandas, “Da Mao” and “Er Shun”, on Sunday arrived in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, after prematurely (过早地) finishing their stay at 【小题1】 Canadian zoo, as the COVID-19 pandemic cut off their bamboo supply. “Da Mao” and “Er Shun” 【小题2】(send) to Chongqing Municipality for quarantine (隔离), according to the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding.

【小题3】 average, each giant panda consumes about 40 kilograms of bamboo daily. The Calgary Zoo had been importing fresh bamboo from China, but struggled 【小题4】(meet) the pandas needs when the 2019-nCoV stopped most flights in March. The zoo said staff worked with the San Diego Zoo and Suncoast Nursery to arrange 【小题5】(week) shipments of fresh bamboo, 【小题6】 the process of finding the right bamboo has been expensive and time-consuming. In May, the zoo announced it would have to return the two animals four years 【小题7】 (early) than planned so that they could enjoy China’s enough supply of fresh bamboo instead. The zoo said on Friday that after “months and months of hard work” it had received international permits “to get our beloved pandas home to China”. Throughout 【小题8】 (them) trip home, each panda has about 100 kilograms of bamboo to consume along with pears, apples and biscuits. After 【小题9】(spend) five years at the Toronto Zoo, the two moved to the Calgary Zoo in March 2018 with twin pandas, “Jia Panpan” and “Jia Yueyue”, which 【小题10】 (travel) home to China in January.