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Correct best answer: Replace “habit” with “habitat.”

“Logging has reduced the Giant Panda’s bamboo-rich habitat, increasing chances that the fascinating black-and-white bear will become extinguished.”

The writer falls asleep mid-word, writing “habit” when the intended word was “habitat.” This might have been intentional, the expression of a thought about the “Giant Panda’s habit of eating bamboo.” However, the rest of the sentence doesn’t support that interpretation or that phrasing. Logging doesn’t “reduce” a habit, though it might “change” one by forcing a panda to eat something besides bamboo. The logical inference from the rest of the sentence is that logging reduces the acreage of bamboo in the high forests; thus, it reduces the size of a panda’s natural “habitat” and threatens the bear’s existence in the wild.
作者大概是寫到一半睡著了，本來要寫「棲地」(habitat)，結果寫成「習慣」(habit)。或許作者想表達「熊貓吃竹子的習慣」，不過從句子其他部分看來這個說法並不成立。伐木不會「減少」習慣，但可能「改變」習慣，使熊貓不得不吃竹子以外的食物。從句中其他部分推斷，伐木減少了成熟樹林中的竹林面積，連帶使熊貓的天然「棲地」(habitat)面積下降，讓熊貓難以在野外生存。