(D) Q48-50        The movie Farewell, made by the Taiwanese artist Chu-Ling Hsu, won a special prize in2009. This short video showed the very last polar bear (北極熊) on Earth saying goodbye frommelting (融化的) ice before dying. Hsu makes this video to say that global warming (全球暖化)has already become quite serious and hopes that her video can help wake up the public and dosomething together for our Mother Earth.       Because of global warming, large numbers of Arctic (北極) ice are melting away, and theseal (海豹) number is also falling sharply. Polar bears feed on seals and thus quickly are lowerin number because they have fewer places to live in and are seldom able to find enough food toeat. When the planet warms up, ice in Arctic areas melts and it leads the sea level up worldwide.Small islands and lower areas could soon be underwater, and the people in cities, like London,Shanghai, and Taipei, probably have nowhere to live by the end of the

century.        Global warming can also lead to serious weather change, and this may cause the deaths ofhundreds of people at a time, such as typhoons or floods(水患). And now, the deserts (沙漠)near the hotter areas are bigger and bigger. People might also face hunger before long, just asmany polar bears have already experienced.        When polar bears are hungry, they may kill and eat each other, even their babies. If wewant to save our bear friends, we should beat the clock and fix the problem before it is too late.We need to seize every chance to slow global warming, or not having enough food will be justone of the terrible things will happen to us in the near future. By then, it might just be our turnto say goodbye to the planet.
【題組】48. Where does the artist of the movie Farewell come from?
(A) London.
(B) Shanghai.
(C) Taiwan.
(D) The North Pole.