“Wonderful experience”: Researcher’s close encounter with Svalbard polar bears By Miranda Bryant Katarzyna Kudłacz was preparing a breakfast of scrambled eggs __ a research station on Svalbard when she looked up to see she had three unexpected guests. Shocked and in awe, the meteorologist immediately alerted her colleagues to the female polar bear and her two cubs peering into the Polish research station __ Hornsund, in the south of the Norwegian archipelago, their noses pressed up against the window. Her photographs of the close encounter show one __ the bears with their paw __ the window, board games in the foreground. “That day I was on duty, the so-called station duty, when one person is in charge of the station, keeping an eye on the satellite radio, cooking or cleaning,” said Kudłacz, who has been based at the station since June. “While preparing breakfast, I saw from the kitchen our majestic guests looking with interest at the windows”. The family looked healthy, she said, and “only looked at our windows with interest”, but the team decided to fire a flare gun to frighten the bears away. “It was a wonderful experience, but we must remember that they are wild animals and for them and for us it is better to keep our distance. They were not aggressive. However, we preferred to scare them away by making noise and firing a signal gun”. Daniel Kępski, the leader of the 46th Polish polar expedition, said they often saw polar bears, but the animals rarely stopped to look inside the research station. “It was amazing to see them so close during that day, but of course, it was also a bit stressful”. This year the team had seen more polar bears than usual, he added. Usually, there were around 20 bear sightings a year, but this year there had been close to 40 sightings since June and they expected to see more in their final three months. “So far, we have not observed any clearly emaciated individuals. This year is probably a good year for Svalbard’s polar bears because there is a lot of sea ice here compared to recent years”, he said. (Available at: www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/02/wonderful-experience-svalbard-researchers-close-encounter-with-svalbard-polar-bears – text especially adapted for this test). How did the research team decide to deal with the bears?

Katarzyna Kudłacz called the island’s rangers to safely conduct the bears back to where they came from.

They believe keeping the bears distant is safer for the researchers and the animals, so they fired a flare gun to scare the bears.

Katarzyna Kudłacz called her colleagues who were out in the research fields and they all waited for the bears to go away before returning to the base.

The research leader, Daniel Kępski, had to shoot the bears because they were threatening the team’s safety.

Although the team called the police for help, they thought the bears were not aggressive and encouraged them to explore the base.

Questão 3170336 de Língua Inglesa - FUNDATEC 2024

Questão

ID 3170336

Disciplina: Língua Inglesa

Assunto: Notícias e Artigos Jornalísticos | News Articles

Ano: 2024 Banca: FUNDATEC - Fundação Universidade Empresa de Tecnologia e Ciências Órgão: Prefeitura Municipal de Cidreira

“Wonderful experience”: Researcher’s close encounter with Svalbard polar bears

By Miranda Bryant

Katarzyna Kudłacz was preparing a breakfast of scrambled eggs __ a research station on
Svalbard when she looked up to see she had three unexpected guests. Shocked and in awe, the
meteorologist immediately alerted her colleagues to the female polar bear and her two cubs
peering into the Polish research station __ Hornsund, in the south of the Norwegian archipelago,
their noses pressed up against the window. Her photographs of the close encounter show one __
the bears with their paw __ the window, board games in the foreground.
“That day I was on duty, the so-called station duty, when one person is in charge of the
station, keeping an eye on the satellite radio, cooking or cleaning,” said Kudłacz, who has been
based at the station since June. “While preparing breakfast, I saw from the kitchen our majestic
guests looking with interest at the windows”. The family looked healthy, she said, and “only looked
at our windows with interest”, but the team decided to fire a flare gun to frighten the bears away.
“It was a wonderful experience, but we must remember that they are wild animals and for them
and for us it is better to keep our distance. They were not aggressive. However, we preferred to
scare them away by making noise and firing a signal gun”.
Daniel Kępski, the leader of the 46th Polish polar expedition, said they often saw polar bears,
but the animals rarely stopped to look inside the research station. “It was amazing to see them
so close during that day, but of course, it was also a bit stressful”. This year the team had seen
more polar bears than usual, he added. Usually, there were around 20 bear sightings a year, but
this year there had been close to 40 sightings since June and they expected to see more in their
final three months. “So far, we have not observed any clearly emaciated individuals. This year is
probably a good year for Svalbard’s polar bears because there is a lot of sea ice here compared
to recent years”, he said.

(Available at: www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/02/wonderful-experience-svalbard-researchers-close-encounter-with-svalbard-polar-bears – text especially adapted for this test).

How did the research team decide to deal with the bears?

Alternativa A:
Katarzyna Kudłacz called the island’s rangers to safely conduct the bears back to where they came from.
Alternativa B:
They believe keeping the bears distant is safer for the researchers and the animals, so they fired a flare gun to scare the bears.
Alternativa C:
Katarzyna Kudłacz called her colleagues who were out in the research fields and they all waited for the bears to go away before returning to the base.
Alternativa D:
The research leader, Daniel Kępski, had to shoot the bears because they were threatening the team’s safety.
Alternativa E:
Although the team called the police for help, they thought the bears were not aggressive and encouraged them to explore the base.

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