BeforetheearthquakeinChina’sSichuanProvince38-year-oldSarahBexellwasworkingtodevelopanewenvironmentalconsciousness(意识)amongChinesepeopleandtoencouragethemtoprotectwildlifeandhabitat-inparticularthatoft

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Before the earthquake in China’s Sichuan Province 38-year-old Sarah Bexell was working to develop a new environmental consciousness(意识) among Chinese people and to encourage them to protect wildlife and habitat-in particular that of the giant panda.

Bexell an American who is the director of conservation education at the Chengdu Research Base for Giant Panda Breeding. Bexell has spent a lot of time teaching young people the value of protecting the environment.

“The younger generation in China can afford to care ” Bexell said before the earthquake. “They’re not starving. Thay have food good jobs and access to education.”

Now Bexell worries about the people she has been working with and who are up in the mountains. She doesn’t know whether they and their families are safe. And she knows the work to which she is devoted has become more urgent during the immediate crisis.

Bexell and her Chinese colleagues have been trying to spread the message that the tourist boom population growth and pillaging (掠夺) of resources form terrible threats to the environment.

There are stories of pandas wandering out of the forest and into villages. This is a troubling sign for what should be a rare species.

To make matters worse there are fears that with the earthquake and landslides bamboo could massively die off. That’s the main food source for the giant pandas whose habitat was already damaged.

In April Bexell took Block way up a twisting mountain road into the Longxi-Hongkou National Nature Reserve. The reserve was set up in 1997 to protect the giant panda and its habitat. It was very near the epicenter(震中) of the earthquake so this area suffered severe damage.

58．Bexell is devoted to________ in Sichuan Province.

A．protecting giant pandas B．environment-protection education

C．research on people’s lives D．research on the environment after earthquakes

59．The main threats to the wildlife and the environment are the following EXCEPT ________.

A．population growth B．tourist development

C．bamboo’s massive death because of bad weather D．the overuse of resources

60．According to what Bexell says ________.

A．we should care for animals since we have enough food and clothing

B．many young people in China are usually selfish

C．rich people should spend more on young people’s education

D．animal and environmental protection needs a lot of money and time

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