Whales have been facing serious danger for a long time.

First, due 【小题1】 the greenhouse effect, glaciers are melting, and some living creatures in the Antarctic and the Arctic 【小题2】 (be) on the edge of extinction. With global warming, life in other parts of the ocean has also been seriously affected, whales 【小题3】 (include).

Secondly, whaling activity is another killer. Historically, whaling has been popular in some overseas countries, such as England, Japan and Norway. On the one hand, some people’s desire for money can’t 【小题4】 (meet) easily, and they regard whales as a money-making machine. A kilogram of whale meat can fetch about $100 in Japan. On 【小题5】 other hand, advanced technology has increased the efficiency of whaling and 【小题6】 (great) reduced the number of whales. What’s more, some countries are still on whaling in the name of science, 【小题7】 (seem) curious about this creature.

The fact 【小题8】 whales are on the edge of extinction is alarming us. Some 【小题9】 (organize) have begun working hard to save them. The international community has made a strategy against commercial whaling. In my opinion, governments should also make tough laws 【小题10】 (protect) whales.

Nowadays thanks to the Internet, modern pets are getting online. It sounds crazy, but about 17 percent of British pets have their own social media accounts!

It’s said that your personality 【小题1】 (reflect) in your pet. “Dog people” are supposed to be friendly, enthusiastic and loyal, while “Cat people” are introverted, proud and 【小题2】 (sense).

The British are well known as a nation of animal lovers. In the UK, 52% of owners describe their pet as their “best friend”, 【小题3】 in 2021, 18 million homes had at least one pet, meaning for the first time there were more households with a pet than 【小题4】.

In the 1800s, people started using the word “pet” to describe the emotional connections, 【小题5】 they felt to a special animal, and gradually it became 【小题6】 (norm) to keep pets indoors. Family pets became more popular as people’s living standards【小题7】 (increase). And by the Victorian era, people kept various animals as their pets. The famous Victorian poet, George Gordon Byron, once owned four pet geese. For the Victorians, cats were feminine and weak. They admired the qualities 【小题8】 (associate) with dogs, like self-confidence and loyalty, being strong and unchanging in support of your friends.

【小题9】 (change) continually throughout history, Britain’s relationship with pets, from the manly British Bulldog to funny cat 【小题10】 (video) on YouTube, has been quite a journey!

Animal protection doesn’t begin and end with stopping poachers (偷猎者). Protection is the main area 【小题1】 dogs perform well. Dogs’ noses have the ability 【小题2】 (help) find live animals for natural surveys and observing programs, by finding various 【小题3】 (sign) animals leave.

Dogs provide important support in finding rare or 【小题4】 (threaten) wildlife—from koala and quoll in the Australian bush, to pine marten and crested newt in Britain’s countryside.

One of the world’s leading protection discovery dog trainers 【小题5】 (be) the non-profit Working Dogs for Protection. Co-founder Megan Parker was born in Missoula, Montana and has trained dogs 【小题6】 years to find scat (粪便), as one of the least harmful ways to find out where endangered species live and their numbers.

Smell detection has so far helped find populations of 【小题7】 fiercest predator (捕食者)—the killer whale—in the north eastern pacific and the 【小题8】 (rare) gorilla in the world—the Cross River gorilla—in the highland forests of Nigeria and Cameroon.

And now using the dog’s 【小题9】 (strong) is helping protectionists manage habitat for bears in the US Rockies and Yellowstone.

Protection by using the dog’s unbelievable smell abilities to preserve other species 【小题10】 (regard) as nature helping nature, but it is a solid fact that these specialized wildlife dogs are here to stay.