WWF
The WWF is the world’s largest organisation for nature conservation. It was founded① in the UK in 1961 and opened an international office in Switzerland in the same year. Its aim② was to protect the natural habitats of wild animals in danger of③ extinction④. One of the founders, the painter and naturalist⑤ Peter Scott, designed the famous panda logo. The initials⑥， WWF, stand for⑦ World Wide Fund for Nature. Originally⑧ the name was World Wildlife Fund. Today the organisation has branches⑨ in 90 countries in all five continents⑩. It has thousands of volunteers and more than five million supporters who help by giving money. Since 1985 it has spent more than $1,000 million on? 11,000 projects in 130 countries.
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①found vt.成立；建立(founded, founded)
②aim/eIm/n.目标；目的
with the aim of doing sth.旨在做某事
③in danger of处于……危险中
be in danger处于危险中
④extinction/Ik'stI?k?n/n.灭绝；绝种
⑤the painter and naturalist画家兼自然学家，作one的同位语。第二个名词前不加冠词，指同一个人，这时谓语动词应用单数形式。
⑥initial/I'nI?l/n.首字母
⑦stand for代表
⑧originally adv.最初；起初
⑨branch/brɑ?nt?/n.分支机构；办事处(pl.branches)
⑩continent/'k?ntIn?nt/n.大陆；洲
?spend ...on ...在……上花费……
世界自然保护基金组织
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世界自然保护基金组织是世界上最大的自然保护组织。它于1961年在英国成立，同年在瑞士开了一个国际办事处。其目的在于保护濒临灭绝的野生动物的自然栖息地。其中一位建立者，画家兼自然学家，皮特·斯科特设计了著名的熊猫标志。缩略词WWF代表“世界自然保护基金组织”。最初名字是World Wildlife Fund。现在这个组织在所有五大洲的90个国家拥有分支机构。它拥有成千上万名志愿者和五百多万名通过捐资来帮助的支持者。自1985年以来，它已经在130个国家的11 000个项目上花费了100 000多万美元。
The focus? of attention has changed, too. In the 1980s the WWF became interested in? all activities? which have an effect on? the environment?， such as pollution and the way ?we use energy?. The WWF believes that our world has a future only if? people learn to conserve? nature and not waste energy. As a result, it started working with governments to introduce environmental education into schools.
The WWF has worked with the Chinese government since 1980, when Dr George Shaller arrived to work with Chinese scientists on the panda project. For fifteen years WWF China staff had been based in Switzerland but came to China to monitor the project. Then, in 1995, the organisation set up an office in Beijing. Today there are more than thirty staff working on twenty projects all over the country. They include work in forests, energy, and in environmental education for China’s primary and secondary schools as well as saving the panda, of course.
?focus/'f??k?s/n.焦点；集中点，focus on集中于
?become interested in变得对……感兴趣
?activity n．活动
?have an effect on对……有影响
?which ...为限制性定语从句，修饰activities。
?we use energy为限制性定语从句，修饰the way，省略了引导词that/which。
?energy/'en?d?i/n.能源
?only if只有，only if引导的条件状语从句放于句首，主句需用部分倒装语序。
?conserve v．保护
waste/weIst/vt.浪费
work with sb. on sth.与某人一起从事某事
when ...project为非限制性定语从句，修饰1980。
China staff中国工作人员
be based in以……为基地，be based on根据……
monitor/'m?nIt?/vt.监测
set up建立；设立
现在分词短语working ...作staff的后置定语。
primary and secondary schools中小学
as well as也，和，又
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?WWF?关注的焦点也已经发生了变化。20世纪80年代，世界自然保护基金组织开始关注所有对环境造成影响的活动，比如污染以及我们利用能源的方式。世界自然保护基金组织相信只有人们学会保护自然，不浪费能源，我们的世界才有未来。因此，它开始与政府合作把环保教育推行到学校。,自1980年以来世界自然保护基金组织已经与中国政府进行合作，那时乔治·山勒博士来与中国科学家共同从事熊猫工程的工作。15年来，世界自然保护基金组织的中国工作人员驻地在瑞士，但是他们到中国来监测这一工程。接着，1995年该组织在北京设立了办事处。时至目前，全国有30多个该组织成员在从事着20个项目的工作。它们包括森林、能源的工作以及中国中小学的环保教育，当然也有拯救熊猫的工作。
Choose the best answers according to the text.
1．What is WWF?
A．It is the world’s biggest land animal. A fully grown adult can weigh five tons.
B．It can be found in parts of Siberia and Northeast China.
C．An official working for the branch of China.
D．It’s the largest organisation for nature conservation in the world.
2．What’s the aim of the WWF when it was founded?
A．To protect the natural habitats of wild animals in danger of extinction.
B．To feed mostly on insects and small reptiles, but also fish and frogs.
C．To focus the same attention on organising the volunteers working for the WWF.
D．To increase the population of experts working on the wild animal programme.
3．Which of the following is TRUE?
A．The organisation always has the same focus of attention.
B．The WWF set up an office in Beijing in 1995.
C．The organisation has only the volunteers working in the world.
D．The WWF China staff work in Switzerland, monitoring the project.
4．Which of the following is included in the list of protection of the WWF?
A．African Elephant and Siberian Tiger.
B．Northern Bald Ibis and Blue Whale.
C．Panda and Antelope.
D．All of the above.
答案：1～4 DABD
