On January 27, 2026, local time, the twin giant pandas Xiaoxiao and Leilei, which had been living in Japan, left Ueno Zoo in Tokyo and returned to China. This marks the end of an era of exchange. As we all know, the China Wildlife Conservation Association (CWCA,中国野生动物保护协会) sent giant pandas Yun Chuan and Xin Bao to the San Diego Zoo in the United States in 2024, which is a symbol of a new 10-year period of international conservation(保护) partnership(合作关系). The CWCA organized experienced caretakers and doctors to go with the pandas to the US. The zoo provided the pandas with a larger and more comfortable living environment. It also formed a team with special skills related(相关的) to panda care, daily nursing, and scientific research.
The cooperation(合作) between the CWCA and the San Diego Zoo dates back to 1996 when Bai Yun and Shi Shi became the first pair of pandas to live in the zoo. Giant pandas Hua Mei, born in 1999, and Mei Sheng, born in 2003, who used to live there, are the result of China-US giant panda research cooperation. Over the past years, the two sides have cooperated and solved many technical problems, including important discoveries in key areas like panda raising.
Since the 1990s, China has cooperated on giant panda conservation with 20 countries. "International cooperation in fields such as disease prevention and control, treatment, and wild training and reintroduction to the wild, has achieved good results. Giant pandas will facilitate communication between people and let people around the world know China better," said Li, from the China Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda.
"Scientific and educational outreach(外展服务) also plays a key role in international giant panda exchanges, allowing more people to understand giant pandas, which provides very good support for our efforts to protect wild giant pandas," Li said.
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B
)1. China's sending Yun Chuan and Xin Bao to the San Diego Zoo means
.
A. a good living condition for pandas
B. a new age of conservation cooperation
C. a great achievement in scientific research
D. a long-term plan for training panda caretakers
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C
)2. How long have the CWCA and the San Diego Zoo cooperated?
A. For 21 years.
B. For 25 years.
C. For 30 years.
D. For 34 years.
(
A
)3. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?
A. The history of the cooperation.
B. The raising of the giant pandas.
C. The lives of the pandas in the US.
D. The process of solving the problems.
(
C
)4. What does the underlined word "facilitate" in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A. Expect.
B. Create.
C. Improve.
D. Receive.
(
B
)5. What do we know from the last paragraph?
A. Scientific research is well on its way.
B. The outreach plays an important part.
C. The cooperation requires international support.
D. Education about wildlife protection is a big success.
