A starving polar bear seen hunting for food in a major industrial city in northern Siberia has been captured and will be transported to a wildlife park for treatment, according to local reports.
Photos showed the female animal trudging across a busy road with muddy paws, digging through rubble and trash and lying down from apparent exhaustion on the ground.
Experts believe the animal, initially thought to have wandered hundreds of miles from its natural habitat in the Arctic, instead may have been taken as a baby polar and raised in enclosed places by traders, according to the Siberian Times.
The experts explained that it is typically not females but males that migrate long distances, and said this polar bear was too clean to have made such a travel, the newspaper reported. They told the newspaper it's possible that poachers released the animal to avoid being caught and punished. Polar bear poaching has been banned in Russia for more than 60 years. Still, it has been estimated that as many as 200 of them are killed each year in the Far East region.
As the Washington post's Isaac Stanley-Becker reported, polar bears “are classified as a vulnerable species because of the 'ongoing and potential loss of their sea ice habitat resulting from climate change, according to the World Wildlife Fund”.
【小题1】What does the underlined word “enclosed" mean in paragraph 3?| A．Fenced | B．Chained | C．Diverged | D．Guaranteed |
| A．Because this polar bear is too exhausted. | B．Because this polar bear is a male. |
| C．Because this polar bear has no family. | D．Because this polar bear looks clean. |
| A．baby polar bears | B．female polar bears | C．male polar bears | D．strong polar bears |
| A．Because they have white fur. |
| B．Because their sea ice habitat is disappearing. |
| C．Because they are not cut enough. |
| D．Because they are often captured by poachers and pelt traders. |
