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Practice Listening: Multiple Choice, Single Answer
ID: #4648
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Coral reefs
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Coral reefs are in jeopardy in oceans across the world. Beginning in 2014, a global heatwave raised the temperature of seawater more than three degrees Fahrenheit above normal levels. The increase drove away the microscopic algae that ordinarily live inside the corals and provide them with food. Within three years, over 67 per cent of reefs around the world had been affected by starvation or disease caused by the excess heat. Although scientists expect many coral reefs to recover, since water temperatures began to cool in 2017, they also believe the surviving corals will be more susceptible to disease. And global-warming trends mean that, in the longer term, it is likely that similar episodes will become more frequent and more severe.
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