The red panda, also called red cat-bear, has soft and thick fur with a red-brown stripe (条纹) from each eye to the corners of the mouth. Its body     1     (long) is about 50—65cm and its front legs are slightly     2     (short) than the back legs, which gives it a bit of a waddle (摇晃) when it walks.

The red panda lives in an area     3     rocks and trees can be found. It seems to do most of its feeding on the ground. It is gentle and can easily     4     (keep) in the zoo.

About two     5     (three) of the red panda’s diet is made up of bamboo. Red pandas do a lot of eating so providing plenty of food is important. There must be plenty of trees for them     6     (climb) and sleep too.

The red panda can live together     7     (peace) with other pandas. Most of their activity happens at night, during sunrise or sunset.

Now red pandas are     8     danger. Their main threat (威胁) is the disappearance of the forests and habitat loss. These     9     (animal) are also illegally hunted, and the number of them     10     (drop) by 50% in the past forty years.

Nature hands us a whole series of rich and varied colors,     1    (literal) on our plates! Not only do we eat pigments (色素),     2     we use some of them as colouring agents. Red, yellow, pink and green are just some of the rainbow of colors in our food.

The color of food has quite     3     impact on our choice of what we eat. We instinctively prefer the colors red, orange and yellow over green and blue, which tend     4    (represent) bitterness. Man is naturally attracted towards sweet food and dislikes all things bitter, a tendency which is evident right from birth. However, such preferences     5    (influence) by our individual experiences and education, cultural criteria and tendencies. The color of a particular foodstuff can also influence our perception of tastes,     6    (flavor) or smells and we often associate certain colors with particular tastes: pink with sweet things, green with     7    (salt) food and the color orange with spicy food.

    8     do carrots, peppers and tomatoes all have in common? They all contain natural coloring agents. Discovery of various coloring techniques spread the centuries. New and creative methods to abstract pigments, mix them and then dye (染色), all add a little color     9     life, simply to please our senses. Nonetheless, colored food also brings micronutrients which are essential for good health. So don’t wait any     10    (long)! Brighten up your plate today!

With fossil records dating back to 400 million years ago, sharks have lived even     1     (long) than the dinosaurs and many other forms of life. There are more than 500 species of sharks     2     (discover) on earth.

These sharks,     3     are so important to the natural order of marine ecosystems, are faced with     4     (extinct). While they have been an important resource for coastal communities in the developing world for     5     (century), this unique balance is in danger of being lost forever.

As our oceans are     6     (serious) influenced by the greenhouse effect, to restore these water bodies is the key     7    protecting sharks. What’s more, sharks’ wide range of species adds difficulty to the conservation efforts of protecting these     8     (amaze) creatures. And the great demand for their fins     9     (increase) the urgency of the task over the past few years. Through the effective strategies, we are trying to restore the balance between humans     10     sharks.

A five-month-old bird has set a new record for long-distance migration(迁徙)after    1    (fly)13,560 kilometers without stopping over a period of 11 days. The previous one was set two years ago by another bird that     2    (cover) about 12,000 kilometers in 11 days.

    3    (million)of birds set for the sky for a long and quite hard journey to get away from the coming cold, feed, and have babies for    4    next few months. A lot of them travel through distances of over 10,000 kilometers. This year, an    5    (astonish) 13,560 kilometers was covered by a bird,    6    set a new Guinness record in the process. This happened last month when the young bird had its     7    (depart) from Alaska to New Zealand for the winter. The bird took off    8    October 13 from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in Alaska, followed the usual route across the Pacific Ocean down to New Caledonia and through the Tas-man Sea, before making an unexpected 90-degree turn towards Tasmania rather than New Zealand.

Scientists had the ability     9    (know) the bird’s record flight with the help of a tiny tracker that only weighed 5 grams. An expert said the bird lost “half or more of its body weight” during the 11-day flight, but it made it arrive at the dry land    10    (safe).

Scientists exploring the ocean floor in Antarctica have found a larger group of fish nests than ever before. The discovery came     1     a surprise, and it will help scientists develop a more complete idea of the ocean food web in the area.

In the south Weddell Sea, not far from Antarctica’s Filchner Ice Shelf, scientists were    2     (amaze) to discover a group of about 60 million icefish nests on the ocean floor. Before this, the     3     (large) group of icefish nests that had ever been found includes less than 60 nests. Lilian Boehringer, a research student, was the first     4     (discover) the nests. “They were everywhere,” she told The New York Times.

The researchers used a special device called OFOBS to make two more four-hour “dives” ,    5     (try) to discover the limits of the nesting area. The nests scientists found were in the shape of     6     circle. Each nest held about 1,700 eggs. Usually, Weddell seals (海豹)    7     (spot) in the waters above the nesting site. Trackers     8     (fix) on some Weddell seals show that they dive all the way to the sea floor.

The team placed a camera on the sea floor before leaving,     9     will take a picture of the nests in the area     10     (two) a day for the next two years. They hope the pictures from this camera will help them learn more about the lives of the icefish.

Every year the world unites together on World Animal Day on Oct.4 for the improved treatment and well-being of animals everywhere.

It started in 1931     1     ecologists banded together in Italy to raise awareness (意识) of endangered species (濒危物种).

Since then, the yearly event has been used as a means of     2     (connect) “animal welfare organizations, youth clubs, businesses, community groups, and individuals... to raise awareness for their work and fundraise in support of     3     (cause) ranging from care of working animals to protection of endangered tigers and habitat loss”.

In the past decades, China     4     (do) much to improve the welfare of animals. The     5     (big) symbol of China’s official protection of animals can     6     (find) in the Wildlife Protection Law. First     7     (sign) in 1988 and revised several times over the years,     8     law enforces (执行) the protection of endangered species as well as ensuring a balance between the needs of wild animals and people.

The Chinese people have also made their voice     9     the treatment of animals clear as well. According to a survey done by Frontiers in Animal Science magazine in 2022, 86.3 percent believed that “it is important to have laws that protect the welfare of animals”.

In the spirit of World Animal Day, we all can think of more ways     10     (protect) both the animals around us and those in the wild.

Over and over at the UN climate summit in Glasgow, world leaders have stressed the need     1     (limit) global warming to 1. 5 degrees Celsius. Experts have said crossing the 1. 5 ℃threshold(界限）risks     2     （release) far more severe climate change effects on people, wildlife and ecosystems. Preventing it     3     (require) almost halving global CO₂ emissions(排放) by 2030 from 2010 levels and cutting them to net-zero by 2050.

Already, the world has heated to around 1. 1℃ above pre-industrial levels. Each of the last four decades was     4     (hot) than any decade since 1850. “We never had such a global warming in only a few decades,” said climate     5     (science) Daniela Jacob at the Climate Service Center Germany.

More warming to 1. 5 ℃ and beyond will     6     (worse) such impacts. For example, heatwaves would become both more frequent and more severe. A warmer atmosphere can also hold more moisture(水分), resulting in more extreme rainfall     7     raises flood risks. It also increases evaporation, leading to more intense droughts.

“At 1. 5 ℃, there’s     8     good chance that we can keep most of the Greenland and west Antarctic ice sheet     9     collapsing,” said climate expert Michael Mann at Pennsylvania State University. That would help limit sea level rise to a few     10     (foot) by the end of the century.