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Polar Bears
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     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   7.94

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     challenging words:    rates, maintain, therefore, encounter, hence, survival, entire, hibernators, meat-eating, running, actually, clumsy, conclude, decline, significant, pregnant

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Polar Bears   
1     When we are busy taking pictures of glaciers, icebergs, and walruses in the Arctic, we may encounter the world's largest meat-eating animals on land - polar bears. Wearing white fur coats, polar bears blend perfectly into the landscape full of snow and ice all year round. Even though polar bears can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, they are not clumsy at all! They walk quietly on ice, so other animals cannot hear them approaching. They can swim for at least 60 miles without rest, and their top running speed is 40 miles per hour! If we do encounter polar bears outside of a zoo, we don't stand a good chance of survival! Therefore, it is fair to conclude that polar bears are not the animals that we want to bump into in the Arctic.
 
2     Many people may think that polar bears hibernate during the cold winter months. They actually don't - not in a true definition of hibernation, anyway. In fall, pregnant female polar bears eat a lot and start building snowy dens. Once they finish the construction of their winter homes, they stay in and .....
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