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Day 1 Warm-Up Exercise: Increasing Reading Speed Directions: Do the word recognition drills below. Note the words on the left then under line them every time they appear in the same form on the line to the right. No regression, no vocalization. Try to finish in 15 seconds or less. Starting Time: ____________ 1. disappear disapprove disappear disaster disappoint disagree 2. creature creative creation creature structure pleasure 3. scientist scientist science scientist socialist scientific 4. population popular populate popularly population populous 5. throughout thorough thoughtful through thought-out throughout 6. fountain foundation founder fountain foundling founded 7. American American Afghan Antarctic American Arctic 8. especially especially specially specific species special 9. government governor governing governess government movement 10. breeding breadline breeding breaking breezing breathing Finishing Time: ____________ Total Reading Time: ____________ Error: ____________ Check each line carefully for mistakes. Can the Giant Panda Be Saved? Suppose every person on Earth ate only one kind of food. And one year that food disappeared. If that happened, all humans would soon disappear too. Fortunately, humans don’t face that problem. However， another creature may. The animal is the giant panda, one of the world’s most beloved animals. Dr. Thomas Soderstrom, a Smithsonian botanist, has discovered that the bamboo plants the giant pandas eat are dying. As a result, many of the pandas are also dying of starvation. Scientists of the World Wildlife Fund estimate that so far more than 140 giant pandas have died. This figure may be almost one-quarter of the world’s giant panda population. Between 400 and 1,000 giant pandas are believed to exist. Giant pandas were once more common throughout many parts of Asia. Now they are limited to small pockets in three mountainous provinces of China. Why Is Bamboo Dying? In the w