INFATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT CAN __ SOME COMPANIES TO THE VERGE OF BANKRUPTCY

19. Infation and unemployment can __ some companies to the verge of bankruptcy.A. drive B. cause C. led D. showR e a d t h is p a s sa g e a nd c h o o s e th e best g i v en a ns w e r A, B, C o r D f or e a ch q uest i o n : Once there were lots of pandas in the mountains of Western China. Today they are becoming extinct. Thereason is that they can’t find enough food. Pandas eat bamboo leaves. They do not like another food. Thebamboo grows very slowly. It can take ten years for a bamboo to grow from a seed to a big plant. Some types ofbamboo have seeds only once every sixty years. Pandas must wait many years for their food to grow. Whilebamboo is growing, pandas do not have enough leaves to eat. Farmers are using more and more of the land onthe mountain side to grow food for man. The farmers cut down the bamboo. Bamboo leaves become less plentiful. Pandas cannot find enough food to eat. They starve and die. China and World Wild Fund are trying tosave the pandas. In 1979 they began to set up special parks where pandas live. One such park is the WolongReserve in Sichuan. The Wolong Reserve has highest number of pandas in the world. Scientists come here tostudy the panda’s eating and mating habits. By learning more about the pandas habits, scientists can save it fromextinction.