1 . Discuss the following questions with your partner.
1. What are the animals? What do you know about them?

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2. What do you know about the Changtang National Nature Reserve?
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2 . Look at the title “Talk about saving endangered wildlife” and the information in pictures, and then answer:

1. What message do these posters share?                 
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2. Which one moves you the most? Why?
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3 . What can individuals do to help protect wildlife?
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4 . What are some threats to wildlife? Please list as many as you can.
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5 . “When the buying stops, the killing can too.” How do understand the sentence?
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6 . But Tom broke and ran and that’s the last thing you do with a cougar.

What do we know about cougars?

A．They are afraid of noises.	B．They hesitate before they hit.
C．They are bigger than we think.	D．They like to attack running people.

7 . Using his skis, Nicholas built a snow cave. He gathered a huge mass of snow and dug out a hole in the middle. Then he piled branches on top of himself, like a blanket (carpet) , to stay as warm as he could.

How did Nicholas keep himself warm?

A．He found a shelter.	B．He lighted some branches.
C．He kept on skiing.	D．He built a snow cave.

8 . When Spot and Stripe were four months old, they were learning how to open doors and jump fences, and we knew it really was time for them to go.
Why did the author decide to send Spot and Stripe back to the zoo?

A．They frightened the children.	B．They became difficult to contain.
C．They annoyed the neighbours.	D．They started fighting each other.

9 . Things quickly got very intense due to the huge amount of energy required to look after them. There were some tough times and I just felt extremely tired.
What did the author think of raising the tiger cubs at home?

A．Boring.

B．Tiring.

C．Costly.

D．Risky.

10 . As they grew more mobile, we let them move freely around the house during the day, but when we were asleep we had to contain them in a large room, otherwise they’d get up to mischief. We’d come down in the morning to find they’d turned the room upside down, and left it looking like a zoo.
What do the underlined words “get up to mischief” mean in Paragraph 3?

A．Behave badly.

B．Lose their way.

C．Sleep soundly.

D．Miss their mom.