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According to the article, the animals that face the highest risk of extinction are

Match the vocabulary word with its meaning. One choice is extra.

Scan the section Saving Pandas in the Wild, and identify the purpose for “creating ‘corridors’ of forests.” Saving Pandas in the Wild 8  Under the terms of the Zoo’s agreement with China, scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s Conservation Ecology Center have studied these bears both in the wild and in human care. 9  Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute ecologists spend months in China every year studying wild pandas and their neighbors, such as Asiatic black bears and takin. They teach colleagues in China how to conduct censuses and surveys of large mammals, including giant pandas that live in the wild, using geographic information systems (GIS) and other high-tech tools for tracking wildlife. 10  They are also working to identify new landscapes for giant panda reintroduction. Field research has revealed that wild pandas’ habitat is highly fragmented, which means pandas have a difficult time finding a mate. To address that problem, Zoo scientists and colleagues have been exploring the possibility of creating “corridors” of forests that link isolated habitats. Such corridors would give giant pandas more options for movement and mate selection. They might also assist with the reintroduction of captive-born pandas into the wild. 11  The Zoo’s pandas are part of Panda Watch behavior study. Each day, dedicated Friends of the National Zoo volunteers, called Panda Watchers, monitor the pandas’ behavior via the Panda Cam. Over the years, they’ve amassed mountains of data on the species, which is notoriously difficult to study in the wild.

Which of the following statements would be the best inference from this quote from paragraph 5:  “In other areas, such as reproductive biology, the advanced techniques scientists use today largely did not exist when Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing were alive.”

The use of the word document in paragraph 14 means? 14  As per the Zoo’s original agreement with the China Wildlife Conservation Association, any cub born to Mei and Tian would be sent to a breeding center in one of the panda reserves in China sometime after the cub turned two years old. In April 2007, it was determined that Tai Shan would remain at the Zoo an additional two years past his second birthday, which was July 9, 2007. This extension allowed Tai Shan to become an adolescent bear in front of his fans. What’s more, Zoo scientists were able to continue their studies of his growth and development to document changes duringthis little-known stage of a panda’s life. On February 2010, Tai Shan was sent back to China, per the loan agreement, to a breeding center in Bifengxia, China. The new loan, which was agreed upon in 2010, states that any cub born at Zoo will stay for four years. Bao Bao, Mei Xiang’s second surviving cub born on Aug. 23, 2013, departed for China on Feb. 21, 2017.

What does it refer to in paragraph 7? 7  Panda breeding season is a race against the biological clock. It only comes once a year, and the giant panda team, including scientists from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s Center for Species Survival, and vets, keepers and biologists from the Zoo’s animal care teams, must be ready. Giant panda females, like Mei Xiang, ovulate for just 24 to 72 hours. To identify the opening of that tiny window, animal keepers carefully watch Mei Xiang for any behavioral sign of estrus. At the same time, scientists monitor hormones in her urine to pinpoint the window when she is ready to breed. If attempts at natural breeding are not successful, scientists can step in, collect fresh or frozen-thawed semen from a male and use the genetic material collected to artificially inseminate a female. At the Zoo, three artificial inseminations have resulted in successful births: male Tai Shan in 2005, female Bao Bao in 2013 and male Bei Bei in 2015.

According to paragraph 3, when panda populations become smaller, they face two types of extinction threats. What kind of influences do these specific threats fit into?    drought:   [BLANK-1] inbreeding:  [BLANK-2] 3  As few as 1,864 giant pandas live in their native habitat, while another 300 pandas live in zoos and breeding centers around the world. The largest threat to giant panda survival is habitat destruction. People in need of food and income have cleared forests for agriculture and timber. This logging has fragmented a once continuous habitat, leaving small groups of pandas isolated from each other. When populations become small, they are extremelysusceptible to extinction due to environmental or genetic influences, such as drought or inbreeding. Small populations cannot rebound the same way large populations do; as groups of pandas become more isolated, it is more likely that reproduction, disease resistance and population stability will be threatened.

Name six topics that animal experts have studied about the giant panda. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

The Sound of Waves does not show a direct encounter between Hatsue and Shinji’s mother.

Near the end of Shyam Benegal’s film, Ankur (1974), Kishtayya audibly speaks.