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in the Panda Bamboo In China pandas are incredibly picky about their food.Eating bamboo is about the only thing they do,but (1) curiously, they aren’t very good at it.The panda can harvest bamboo quickly thanks to a specialized thumb for gripping leaves.But its intestines are not good at (2) digesting plant matter and most of it passes straight through.With their inefficient digestion,pandas need huge quantities of bamboo.This has become their biggest problem. (3) Stands of bamboo go through natural cycles of death and (4) regeneration.When one stand dies off,the panda migrates to a new one.Now that pandas are trapped in small islands of forest when their local bamboo dies,they have nowhere to go.They starve. If only the panda could leave its bamboo island or find new food on this rapidly changing planet.But the panda is not that kind of animal. 【 Tips: (1) curiously adv.(strangely and unusually)难以理解地，不寻常地 （2） digest v.(when you digest food,or it digests,it is changed into substances that your body can use) （3） stand n.(of plants and trees)生长的植物 （4） regeneration n.(something grow again)再生 】 WORD POP 新词堂 Mental E.g. I think she’s gone completely mental. Megabucks E.g. We’ll be making megabucks[‘megabvk ]once the shop gets going . E.g. Her new boyfriend is such a yawn[jo:n]. * 发疯，精神错乱 Insane,crazy 很多钱 A huge quantity of money A yawn 枯燥的人或事 Someone or something that is very boring *