Shanghai Expo giant pandas meet with public

　　Ten giant panda cubs¹, which will be on display at this year's Shanghai World Expo at local zoos, made their public debut² at the Shanghai Zoo on Wednesday.
The pandas, six females and four males, had perfectly³ adapted to their new home since their arrival from southwest China's Sichuan Province on Jan. 5, said Chen Lihua, director of the zoo's feeding department.
They will be on display in the Shanghai Zoo during the first half of the year and then in the Shanghai Wildlife Zoo in the latter half year.
Zoo officials said it would be the largest scale of display of giant pandas outside Sichuan, which would give tens of millions of Chinese and foreign visitors to the Expo a glimpse at the highly endangered(濒危的) species.
The Shanghai Expo will run from May 1 to Oct. 31, expected to receive around 70 million visitors.
The Shanghai Zoo, which already has three older giant pandas, has built new exhibition（展览展示） areas and established bamboo supply bases to ensure sufficient（足够的） food for the pandas.
The price for the ticket to the zoo would not change during the panda exhibition, zoo officials said.
The cubs, all about one year and a half old, were born in Sichuan Wolong Breeding Base after the deadly Wenchuan earthquake on May 12, 2008.
Giant pandas, known for being sexually inactive, are among the world's most endangered animals due to shrinking habitat.
There are about 1,600 giant pandas living in China's wild, mostly in Sichuan and the northwestern provinces of Shaanxi and Gansu.(本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑)

1 cubs   

n.幼小的兽，不懂规矩的年轻人( cub的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a lioness guarding her cubs 守护幼崽的母狮
• Lion cubs depend on their mother to feed them. 狮子的幼仔依靠母狮喂养。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 debut   

n.首次演出，初次露面

参考例句：

• That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里，他初次在百老汇登台，扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
• The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。

3 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。