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r work should include the fundamental elements of Chinese art with a vibrate theme and cheerful contents. If you have an interest, please hand in your work to the Art Association before Saturday. There are abundant prizes waiting for you. 第2節(jié) 概要寫作(滿分25分)第二節(jié). 閱讀下面短文,根據(jù)其內(nèi)容寫一篇60詞左右的內(nèi)容概要。With global warming and melting ice, it isn’t easy being a polar bear anymore. Some studies have predicted that polar bears could die out by the end of the century. The good news is not all researchers think the bears are absolutely disappearing. Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History(AMNH) have published a new paper indicating that things might not be as bad for polar bears as some scientists expect. To understand the reason for the researchers’ cautious optimism, we must first understand the factors that are threatening the polar bear’s existence. Polar bears consume a diet of mainly young seals. In order to hunt these seals, polar bears need to rest at the top of sea icethe same ice that is increasingly melting for most of the year thanks to climate change. In another 50 years, experts expect that the Arctic will be too warm for sea ice to form for half of the year, leaving polar bears without a reliable food source and in serious danger of starvation. As it turns out, alternative food sources for the polar bears aren’t pletely out of the question. For as long as biologists have tailed after the animals, they’ve seen polar bears eating animals found on land like caribou(馴鹿) and snow geeseas well as the snow geese’s eggs. Can polar bears actually survive off these alternative food sources for long periods of time? To figure this out, researchers calculated the nutrients that a caribou and snow geese diet would provide. They found that even adult male polar bears would be able to obtain more calories than they would burn in hunting these meals. Moreover, the food would provide the food necessary to avoid starvation during the summer months. Unfortunately, not all polar bears have tended to seek food on land. That said, the researchers expect that necessity would push more polar bears to hunt on land to avoid starvation. They also expect that the bears could learn from their fellow bears how to hunt on land until the practice bees second nature. 【參考范文】With global warming and melting ice, some scientists think that polar bears could die out by the end of the century. However, other scientists disagree. They have found polar bears have found alternative food sources and they can survive by hunting animals on land instead of seals. Besides, the researchers expect more polar bears learn how to hunt on land to avoid starvation. 聽力原文:Text 1W: Did you have any working experience during college?M: Yes, I did some parttime jobs such as tourist guide and salesman. Besides, I worked as a volunteer to visit sick kids in the hospital to cheer them up.Text 2M: I didn39。t expect Jenny to play the violin so well.W: Actually, she used to be a top player at college.M: Really? I can hardly believe it.Text 3W: I saw an advertisement in the newspaper about a mountain bike you have on special offer.M: Yes, this one. It39。s our regular $ 200 mountain bike on sale today for $ 160. So it39。s $ 40 cheaper now.W: Great. I39。ll take it.Text 4W: Hey. I39。m a visitor from China, I love your music. It39。s the best I39。ve ever heard. Will you please spare a little bit of time for me?M: Sure. Thank you for saying that. Actually, those songs were sung for the first time today. I wrote them in the past two months.Text 5M: I suppose Jason will be the winner. He has so many friends supporting him.W: And he himself is very diligent. Considering all these, I think he has the ball at his feet.Text 6M: Hi, Megan. How are you?W: Not feeling too good 9 actually.M: Oh? Why39。s that?W: Well, something terrible happened this morning... (voice trembling)M: What? Sorry, take your time, and tell me when you5re ready.W: Well, I was playing with my dog Bonzo in the garden with a ball, and the ball flew into the road, and...M: Yes?W: And Bonzo jumped after it and he got hit by a car.M: Oh, no! And is he...?W: Yes. We took him to the animal hospital immediately, but there was nothing they could do.M: Oh, poor Bonzo. And poor you. I know how much he meant to you.Text 7W: Hi, Kevin. Do you have a minute to talk about the meeting next Tuesday?M: Sure. We said 11, didn39。t we?W: Yeah, we did. But I have a bit of a problem with the time. Would it be possible to move it?M: Oh, I see. We could put it off to the afternoon, to 1 ., for example. Or bring it forward to earlier in the morning. What would suit you?W: Could we make it 9 o39。clock? That would really help me. I have another important meeting in the central office at 12.M: No problem. It39。s important you39。re there.W: Thanks a lot, Kevin.M: Do you need help with any preparation? Did you get the agenda I sent out?W: Yes, I did. And no, that39。s all fine, thanks. My report is ready and I39。m looking forward to presenting it.M: Great.Text 8M: Mom?W: Yes?M: You know that economics exam I had last week?W: The one you didn39。t review?M: I did review it. I was working on it all weekend. Don39。t you remember?W: Oh, yes, I remember. Apart from going out until four in the morning, you mean?M: Well, I have to relax a little. Anyway, I didn39。t pass it.W: You failed it! But wasn39。t that an important one?M: Yeah, I39。m really sorry.W: I39。m really sorry too. What does that mean?M: Well, I’ll probably have to retake the whole course.W: Oh, Ryan! It39。s a really expensive course. I39。m not sure we can afford for you to take it again. Things are difficult enough as it is.M: I know. Mom. I39。m sorry. I39。ll talk to the teacher again and see if I can retake it.Text 9W: So, have you got any plans for the weekend?M: Yeah, me and my friends are going to this activity ce