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When winter comes, Siberian cranes migrate(迁徙) from northeast Siberia in Russia to Poyang Lake in Jiangxi Province, China. 41. ______ However, climate change brings danger to the birds' living areas.
In some years, the Poyang Lake met floods and droughts. These natural disasters led to little food for cranes there. To work out the problem, the local government built a large area of lotus roots(莲藕) in Nanchang. 42. ______ So there are more and more birds living near the Poyang Lake.
China keeps working hard to protect migratory birds. These years, the government has built about 1,140 places for animals to have babies, including wintering grounds and migratory stops. 43. ______ Known as the Earth's kidneys(肾脏), wetlands play an important part in cleaning water, preventing floods, and offering a perfect home to different wildlife.
44. ______ It stops any building work on national wetlands and says no to any harmful activities, such as pouring dirty wastewater into wetlands.
Thanks to all the hard work, more birds like to spend winter in the national wetlands. In December 2022, Shanghai Chongming Dongtan National Nature Reserve recorded over 2,900 tundra swans. 45. ______ It's believed that if we act to protect the wetlands well, we will watch more endangered animals and enjoy nicer nature.
A. In fact, most of these special places lie in wetlands.
B. About 95 percent of the birds spend winter there.
C. Fishermen keep fishing in Poyang Lake these years.
D. These plants provided food for cranes through the winter.
E. The number of these swans was only around 1,000 there in the winter of 2021.
F. Moreover, the Chinese government made the Wetlands Protection Law on June 1, 2022.

答案： 41.B 42.D 43.A 44.F 45.E