Do you have a pet? Owning a pet is becoming very common(常见的) in China these days. And pet owners are now willing to spend more money on their pets than before.

According to a report from Goumin.com and Pet Fair Asia, Chinese people living in cities spent a total of 202.4 billion yuan on their pets in 2019. Most pet owners are people born after 1990. Most of them have high incomes and are well educated. Pet owners in China are spending more on pet food, clothing and furniture, according to report from Euro monitor International.

Miss Hou, 28, lives in the city of Chengdu. She spent 6,000 yuan on her two cats last year. I bought tinned cat food from the United States, New Zealand, Japan and Thailand, Hou said to Xinhua. If I have time, I also cook for them, she said.

An aging society and fewer people having children are among the main reasons for keeping pets, said Liu Xiaoxia, CEO of Goumin.com. Keeping pets has met the emotional(感情的) needs of many people. Almost 60 percent of pet owners see their animal friends as their own children, Liu said.

Beating loneliness might be another reason. Many young people are leaving their hometowns to make a living in big cities. They are suffering(忍受) from great loneliness and pressure, as they have few friends and face a high cost of living. Keeping pets will help them feel relaxed, the 2019 Chinese Pet Industry White Paper said.

1.How much will Chinese people living in cities spend on their pets in total in 2019?

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2.What does Miss Hou feed her pets?

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3.What is the reason for keeping pets, according to Liu Xiaoxia?

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4.According to the last paragraph, how else can keeping pets help us?

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5.What do you think of keeping pets? (言之有理即可)

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Can plants eat people? Probably not, but there are many plants that eat meat. Some of them are big. And thay can eat small animals. One famous meat-eating plant is Venus Flytrap(捕蝇草).

Venus flytrap is a very strange plant. It grows in dry parts of the United States. Its leaves are like the pages of a book. They can open and close very quickly. Inside the leaves, there are three small hairs. If a fly touches one of the hairs, the leaf closes quickly, so the fly cannot get out. In about half an hour, the leaf presses the fly until it is dead. Then, the plant covers the fly and slowly eats it.

Why do plants do that? Most plants get what they need from the sun, the air, and the ground. In some places, the ground is very poor. It doesn't have all these important things, especially nitrogen (氮). Animal meat has a lot of nitrogen, so some plants eat meat to get what they need. Let's hope that bigger plants don't get the same idea!

1.Venus flytrap is a kind of______.

A.plant B.animal C.food D.meat

2.Venus flytrap grows in______.

A.most parts of the world

B.parts of Africa

C.dry parts of the United States

D.wet parts of England

3.From the passage, we learn that______.

A.all plants can eat people

B.all plants can eat animals

C.some plants can eat people

D.some plants can eat animals

4.The underlined word"presses"probably means______ in Chinese.

A.挤压 B.关上 C.打开 D.松开

5.—Why do some plants eat animal meat?

—Because______.

A.plants are dangerous to animals

B.animals are dangerous to plants

C.plants want to get what they need from animal meat

D.plants want to protect themselves against animals

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