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Do you have a pet?     1     you do, congratulations, you are likely to have a     2     (good) mental state than those who don’t, reported Time magazine.

       According to the report, people with pets usually have lower blood pressure, a lower heart rate and a lower risk of having     3     heart attack. These benefits may come from extra exercise of walking and playing with pets, and stress relief for having a good “friend”.

One study shows that     4     (pet) living creatures can help people with     5     (anxious), while animal toys have no effect at all.

       In a 2016 study     6     (publish) in the journal Gerontology, elderly people    7     were given five crickets (蟋蟀) in a cage became happier than before.

Other researches studied the effect of pets     8     children who have difficulty reading. When the children     9     (ask) to read aloud to a dog and     10     (it) trainer, they were less upset.

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A new report released on Tuesday by Pethadoop said cats accounted for 59.5% of all the pets among the 30,000 respondents surveyed for the research. As of last year, there were some 58 million pet cats in China’s urban households,     1    (compare) with some 54 million pet dogs.

China     2    (see) an increase in pet ownership in recent years, with people     3    (increasing) choosing cats. Globally, though dogs are still more common pets, cats have emerged     4    the most popular pet in the European Union lately.

Cats also became the subject of popular videos,     5    have turned into a social phenomenon in China and elsewhere. Many cat lovers online also identify     6    (they) as “cat slaves”, publicly declaring their pet preference.

Researchers owe the fast growth of cat pets to the lifestyle in Chinese cities, with some experts also suggesting that the cat’s     7     (popular) with the young is related to the young generation’s pursuit of individuality.

Liu Yi, the report’s chief editor, said that many people living in the cities have busy lives     8    relatively smaller accommodations, thus     9    (make) cats their ideal companions —it’s easy to raise cats, unlike dogs that require more attention and outdoor activities.

“Our research shows that the majority of the pet owners are people born after 1990 and 1995,” he said. “Young people are looking for freedom in their lives, and     10    habits of cats are more suited to their needs.”