Notes:
rare 珍しい；
used to （以前［昔］は）よく…した（ものだった)；
goat 《動物》ヤギ；
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Tigers are rare animals. They used to live all over Asia, but now there are fewer than 5,000. In the north, there are about 250 Siberian tigers that live in Russia and northern China. Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, wanted to show that he was interested in saving the tigers. He helped a group of scientists that put some tigers back into the wild in 2011. Now a couple of those tigers are in China eating the goats of Chinese farmers. The Chinese government is probably not very happy, but it doesn’t want to kill the tigers. Instead, it will pay the farmers for their losses. (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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