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Exercise: Fill in the blanks. At _______, a baby panda is very small and pink. I am a little bit fat, I _______ 80 kilos. Qomolangma is 8,844.43 meters ______. The Nile is 6,671 meters _______. The Caspian Sea is 1,025 meters ______. The Sahara is about 9,600,000 square kilometers in ____. This elephant weighs many times ______ than this panda. birth weigh high long deep size more Talk about pandas in your class. Use these words to help you. big bamboo zoo popular cute Sichuan famous endangered beautiful forest protect black and white 2a Before reading While reading Learning strategy: Scanning Scanning means moving your eyes quickly down the page to find specific (具体的) information. 1st reading: Use scanning to do 2b and 2c. 2b Scan the article to find out what these numbers mean: 10, 12, 200, 2,000. It is 8:30 a.m. at the Chengdu Research Base. Lin Wei and the other panda keepers are preparing the milk for the baby pandas’ breakfast. At 9:00 a.m., 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. Scan the article to find out what these numbers mean: 10, 12, 200, 2,000. An education program in Chengdu teaches