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The basic meaning of “pet” is an animal we keep for emotional (情感的) rather than economic reasons.A pet animal is 1 as a companion, and we all need companions to keep happy. 2 pets offer more than mere companionship: they invite us to love and be loved.Many 3 feel their pets understand them, for animals are 4 to sense anger and sorrow.Often a cat or dog can comfort us 5 when human words dont help.We feel loved, too, by the way pets 6 us for a home, for food and drink.Dogs 7 , look up to their owners, which makes them 8 important and needed.
A pet can be something 9 to each member of the family, another baby to the mother, a sister or brother to a(n) 10 child, a grandchild to the elderly, but for all of us pets provide 11 and companionship.It has 12 been suggested that tiny pets 13 be sent as companions to astronauts on spaceships, to help reduce the stress (紧张) and 14 of space flights.
