Question

   Sand cats come from deserts like the Sahara (撒哈拉沙漠）.They have wide faces and big eyes. If you are lucky enough to see one in person, you will

1.        (find) it is one of the cutest animals. In the deserts of Africa and Asia, sand cats like 2.       (live) alone. They usually live in holes made by other small animals. At their largest, they are a little 3.        (little) than two feet long.

Their wide heads give them young, lovely faces. They look for food at night and feed on small animals like snakes. 

     There are not many sand cats in the world, so it’s important to keep them 4.        (safety). However, it is difficult to keep them in zoos. Sand cats in zoos 5. (  easy) get kinds of common diseases. In order to successfully keep sand cats, zoos have to create very special environment just

for them. This 6.        (mean) that, if sand cats are in danger, it's difficult to 7. __ (save) them. It wasn ’ t until 2005 that a sand cat baby was successful 8.        ( raise) in the zoo for the first time. Luckily, people have done something to stop the sand cats from 9.       (be) in danger. Outside their native living places,

there are not many 10.        ( opportunity) to see sand cats. In the USA, there are only 26 sand cats in zoos. Most of us will just have to look at pictures and videos of these lovely wild animals online.

Answer 1

 1.    find 2. living    3. less    4.    safe 5.    easily

6.    means    7. save    8.    raised    9.    being    10.    opportunities