Polar bears are suffering in a 1. (warm) world than ever before.

Polar bears live in environments too cold for most animals. 2. much of the year, they live and hunt on the frozen Arctic sea ice. Nature has prepared  3.  for the cold conditions. But nothing has prepared the bears for the danger that 4.(threat) the only home they know.

The polar bears’ world is melting. Studies show that the polar ice has reduced by 9.8% every 10 years 5.1978. Now about 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears live in the Arctic. Polar bears depend on the sea ice for their 6. (survive). “The sea ice is more than just this platform that the bears walk over,” says Andrew Derocher ,  7. scientist who studies North American polar bear populations. “  8. it, they can’t exist.”

Some melting and refreezing of the polar ice is natural. 9.  in a warmer world, these cycles speed up, and bears have less time to hunt. Normally, they have three months in the spring when they gain more weight. The extra fat is used later,  10. the bears are not actively hunting.

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科目:高中英語 來源:山東省濟(jì)寧市2016-2017學(xué)年高一下學(xué)期期中考試英語試卷 題型:閱讀理解

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科目:高中英語 來源:甘肅省蘭州市2016-2017學(xué)年高一下學(xué)期期中考試英語試卷 題型:閱讀理解

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