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24.Why did Horam play the harmonica on the streets of Bradford?A.To collect money for charity.B.To recall the good old days.C.To live his childhood dream.D.To beg food from passers-by.25.What's the common feature of Horam's_children?A.They are all divorced.B.They are all tone deaf.C.They are all-musical.D.They are all guitar players.26.What is Gavin's attitude to his father's musical abilify?A.Unclear.B.Positive.C Doubtful,D.Disapproving.27.What can be learned from the last two paragraprts?Music fails to help Horam express hiimself.B.Music helps Horam lead a comfortable life.Music helps Horam sharpen his own hearing?D.Music brings Horam a broader circle of life.CNow you can have polar bears as pen friends.First you need to find one,then tranquilize()it and quickly give it the necessary tools before it wakes up.It's an awkward first encounter-howmany friendships do you know that start with tranquilizers?-and admittedly a one-sided correspon-dence,but soon they'll be sending messages daily.Every momning,Jon Aars,a senior researcher at the Norwegian Polar Institute,receives a bunchof emails from several female polar bears,letting him know where they are.Each year,Aars and hiscolleagues fit around 70 polar bears with a fracking collar which continuously logs movement.Once aday the collar makes a satellite call,sending the last 24 hours of data back to the Institute."Data a-bout movement has been very important to understand how they might respond to climate change,"Aarsrexplains.A warming climate means a vast amount of sea ice is melting.Several seal species-polar bears'main food-rely on sea ice,and more often than not,where sea ice can be found,so too can polarbears.But these creatures are being forced to move."We have seen that bears are in different areasthan they used to be-so much further north,")Aars explains.The collar can also record body temperature,which can tell scientists if a bear has moved insidea habitat-an indication the animal is going to give birth.Sea ice loss is also having an impact onwhere polar bears are born."Important areas that they used to go to give birth to cubs()aremore or less lost,"says Aars."Bears are now swimming as far as 200 kilometers to reach an islandhabitat,”he adds,“something they did not need to do20 years ago.”Aars hopes his research could reveal how to help his pen friends hold out a little longer."Whatis important for us is that all this data tells us how they will respond in the future,"he adds.28.What does the author-intend to do in Faragraph 1?A.Provide some key facts about polar bears.B.Explain how to deal with wild polar bears.C..Suggest ways to save tranquilized polar bears.D.Describe how to get polar bears ready for tracking.高三英语试卷第3页（共8页）