Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage. The ocean is heating up. That’s the conclusion of a new study that finds that Earth’s oceans now 26 heat at twice the rate they did 18 years ago. Around half of ocean heat intake since 1865 has taken place since 1997, researchers report online in Nature Climate Change . Warming waters are known to 27 to coral bleaching ( 珊瑚白化 ) and they take up more space than cooler waters, raising sea 28 . While the top of the ocean is well studied, its de