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My hometown Chengdu is the home of pandas. I wanted to learn more about our national treasure. Pandas have lived on the earth for at least 8 million years. Some people call 1. ______ (them) “living fossils (活化石)”.
My chance finally came last summer vacation. I volunteered at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding and had close contact with pandas. 2. ______ (When) I first saw a giant panda eating bamboo with its claws, I thought that it must be the most lovable thing.
When I introduced pandas to 3. ______ (visitors), I told them that pandas spend nearly 12 hours 4. ______ (a) day eating and they sleep in the rest of the time. How lucky I was! A baby panda 5. ______ (was born) while I was volunteering. It was 6. ______ (amazing) that the weight of the newborn panda was only 0.1 percent of its mother's weight—only 145 g. Mother pandas always looked after the newborn pandas 7. ______ (carefully), although it was very difficult.
As I learned more about pandas, I realized it was very important to protect them.
Though the number of pandas 8. ______ (has increased) in recent years, pandas are still endangered. Let's try our best 9. ______ (to help) these endangered animals. Chengdu can become better and more popular, too. Then we can say proudly, “I come 10. ______ (from) the pandas' hometown.”

答案： 1. them 2. When 3. visitors 4. a 5. was born 6. amazing 7. carefully 8. has increased 9. to help 10. from