Chengdu has dozens of new millionaires, Asia
’
s biggest building, and fancy new hotels. But
for tourists like me, pandas are its top 61
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attract
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.
So it was a great honor to be invited backstage at the not-for-profit Panda Base, where
ticket money helps pay for research. I
62
（
allow
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to get up close to these cute animals
at the 600-acre centre. From tomorrow, I will be their UK ambassador. The title will
be 63
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official
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given to me at a ceremony in London. But my connection with pandas
goes back 64
my days on a TV show in the mid-1980s,
65 I was the first Western TV reporter 66
（
permit
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to film a special unit caring for
pandas rescued from starvation in the wild. My ambassadorial duties will
include 67
( introduce
）
British visitors to the 120-plus pandas at Chengdu and others at
a research in the misty mountains of Bifengxia.
On my recent visit, I help a lively three-month-old twin that had been rejected
by 68
（
it
）
mother. The nursery team switches him every few 69 ( day
）
with his
sister so that while one is being bottle-fed,
70
other is with mum-she never
suspects.
KEYS
61. attraction
62. was allowed
63. officially
64. to
65. when
66. permitted