THE FIRST WHITE MAN WHO TRAVERSED THIS DESERT WAS H. ST. JOHN PHIL...

30. The first white man who traversed this desert was H. St. John Philby, in the 1930s.

A. No one traversed this desert after the first white man, H. St. John Philby, in the 1930s.

B. H. St.John Philby was the first white man who arrived in this desert, in the 1930s.

C. In the 1930s, H. St.John Philby is the first one among the first white men traversing this desert.

D. The first white man to traverse this desert was H. St.John Philby, in the 1930s.

Choose the word among A, B, C or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage :

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Once there were lots of pandas in the mountains of western China. Today, they are (31) ………

extinct. The reason is that they can not find enough food. Pandas eat (32) …… leaves. They do not like

any other food. The bamboo grows very slowly. It can take 10 years for a bamboo to grow from a seed to

a big plant. Some types of bamboo have seeds only once every 60 years. Pandas (33) ……. wait many

years for their food to grow. While the bamboo is growing, pandas do not have enough leaves to eat.

China and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) are trying to save the panda. In 1979 they began to set up

special parks (34) ……. pandas live. Scientists come here to study the panda’s eating and mating habits.

By learning more about the panda’s habits, scientists can save it from (35) ……… .