Pets aren’t just hairy toys for your children. Recently it 【小题1】 (prove) that animals play a great role in the child’s identity development. They get on well with children and love them sincerely, because they aren’t so impatient 【小题2】 many adults can be. It seems to me that there 【小题3】 (be) some kind of link between pets and kids. Pets can help parents train 【小题4】 (responsible), self-confidence and carefulness in children.

Pets often act as 【小题5】caring family member. Those children 【小题6】 family has no brothers and sisters sometimes feel lonely, especially when parents are at work or busy withy their housework. Chidren have a chance 【小题7】 (talk) to the pet or share their feelings, which gives 【小题8】 (they) a big relief from stress and worries. A lot of children depend 【小题9】 being together with pets. Let your child grow up with a nice and 55【小题10】 (suit) pet. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a dog, cat or fish. Everything depends on the type of the child’s character.

The 1975 film Jaws tells such a frightening story: A woman swims at night in a dark sea and suddenly she 【小题1】(pull) underwater. Although she struggles, she disappears forever. The film was a great success, attracting huge audiences and 【小题2】(win) many awards. It strengthened people’s long-held idea of the great white shark 【小题3】 a dangerous animal. It made people 【小题4】(frighten) of sharks. At that time, nobody cared about sharks. People just wanted them killed. Some people began to fish for sharks.

After 1975, 【小题5】 number of large sharks fell quickly around the world. This was not only due to fear of sharks, but also finning 【小题6】 is a type of fishing where sharks are caught and their fins cut off. This made sharks die 【小题7】(painful). In 1980, Peter Benchley, the man who wrote the book the film Jaws was based on, was diving 【小题8】 he came across an awful sight of finning. He saw sharks being killed and came to see people as a danger to sharks. From that day on he fought to protect sharks. He 【小题9】(admit) his book was wrong about sharks behaviour. He said experts had proved sharks didn’t see people as food, and they attacked people by mistake.

Fortunately, some people became interested in understanding sharks after seeing the film. Today, more and more people want to protect sharks from 【小题10】(extinct).

Climate change is already affecting wildlife all over the world, but certain species are suffering more than others. Polar animals 【小题1】 icy natural habitat is melting in the warmer temperatures are 【小题2】 (particular) at risk. In fact, experts believe that the Arctic sea ice is melting at a shocking rate — 9% per decade! Polar bears need sea ice to be able to hunt, raise their young and as places to rest after long periods of swimming. Certain seal species, like ringed seals (环斑海豹), make 【小题3】 (cave) in the snow and ice to raise their pups, feed and mate.

It's not just polar animals that are in trouble. Apes like orangutans, which live in the rainforests of Indonesia, are 【小题4】 threat as their habitat 【小题5】 (cut) down, and more droughts cause more bushfires.

Sea turtles (海龟) rely on nesting beaches 【小题6】 (lay) their eggs, many of which are threatened by rising sea levels. Did you know that the temperature of nests 【小题7】 (determine) whether the eggs are male or female? Unfortunately, with temperatures on the rise, this could mean that more females are born than males, 【小题8】 (threaten) future turtle populations.

Climate change won't just affect animals; it's already having 【小题9】 impact on people, too. Most 【小题10】 (affect) people are some of the people who grow the food we eat every day. Farming communities, especially in developing countries, are facing higher temperatures, increased rain, floods and droughts.