The giant panda, also    1     (know) as panda bear or simply panda, is a bear native     2       south central China. For the past many years, the giant panda    3     (drive) out of the lowland areas where it once lived as a result of farming, deforestation and other    4       (develop). Wild population estimates vary: one estimate shows that there are about 1,590 individuals    5     (live) in the wild, while a 2006 study estimated that this figure could be as high as 2,000 to 3,000. Some reports also show that     6       number of giant pandas in the wild is on the rise.

The West first learned of the giant panda on March 11, 1869,     7     the French missionary (传教士) Armand David received a panda skin from a hunter. In 1936, Ruth Harkness became the first Westerner    8    (bring) a live giant panda named Su Lin to the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago. To protect the pandas, in 2012, Earthwatch Institute, a global non-profit organisation that teams volunteers with scientists to conduct important     9     (science) research, launched a program called “On the Trail of Giant Pandas”. This program allows volunteers to work up close with pandas cared for in captivity (圈养), and help them    10     (gradual) adapt to life in the wild.

Nobody before Jane Goodall     1     (full) understood chimp behaviour. When she first arrived in Gombe in 1960,     2     was unusual for a woman to live in the forest. She spent years     3     (observe) and recording their daily activities. She discovered how     4     (chimp) communicate with each other. Most of the time, they either feed or clean each other     5     a way of showing love in their family.

A 90-year-old has been awarded “Woman Of The Year” for being Britain’s oldest full-time employee—still working 40 hours a week. Now Irene Astbury works from 9am to 5pm daily at the pet shop in Macclesfield,    1     she opened with her late husband Les. Her years of hard work have     2    (final) been acknowledged after a customer nominated(提名) her to be Cheshire’s Woman Of The Year.

Taking     3     her “Lifetime Achievement” award, proud Irene declared she had no plans     4    (retire) from her 36-year-old business. Irene said, “I don’t see any reason to give up work. I love coming here and seeing my family and all the friends I     5    (make) in the past decades. I work not because I have to,     6     because I want to.”

Granddaughter Gayle Parks, 31—who works alongside her in the family business—said     7    remained unknown who nominated Irene for the award. She said, “We don’t have any idea who put grandma forward. When we got a call     8    (say) she was short-listed, we thought it was a joke. But then we got     9     official letter and we were blown away. We are so proud of her. It’s     10    (wonder).”

Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their readers with unimportant facts and statistics. Last year a journalist     1    (instruct) by a well-known magazine to write     2     article on the president's palace in a new African republic. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and then refused     3    (publish) it. The article began: "    4    (hundred) of steps lead to the high wall     5     surrounds the president's palace." The editor at once sent the journalist a fax to inform him that he should find out the exact number of steps and the     6    (high) of the wall.

The journalist     7    (immediate) set out to obtain these important facts, but it took him a longtime to send them. Meanwhile, the editor was getting     8    (patience), for the magazine would soon go to press. He sent the journalist two more faxes, but received no reply. Why? Because the journalist had been arrested while     9    (count) the steps. The poor editor had been sent     10     prison as well.