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山东省临沂实验学校2020届高三英语高考模拟卷（七）
The victims were carried in one by one, their paws and fur burned, suffering from dehydration (脱水) and fear. Their caretakers bandaged their wounds, wrapped them and laid them in baskets with the only thing that was familiar - the leaves of a eucalyptus (桉树) tree.
As catastrophic fires have burned more than two million acres in Australia, dozens of koalas have been rescued from burning trees and ashen ground. The animals, already threatened as a species before these latest fires destroyed an essential habitat, are being treated in rescue centers, and at least one private home, along the country's east coast.
The difficult situation of the koala—a national symbol of Australia—has raised questions among conservationists and scientists about what it will take to preserve biodiversity in a country increasingly exposed to intense fire, extreme heat and water scarcity, and which already has among the highest rates of species extinction in the world.
While koalas have evolved to exist alongside wildfires 
the animals are facing new threats not just from climate change but also from human development, which has dislocated local populations, damaging their ability to survive fires. In some regions, scientists say, koalas' numbers have declined by up to 80 percent, though it is difficult to know how many remain across Australia.
"We have these unique animals not found anywhere else on this planet, and we're killing them," said Cheyne Flanagan, the clinical director of the Koala Hospital, the only facility of its kind in the world. "This is a big wake-up call."
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