Alice likes cats     1     than any other animal. Although she is still young, she has experience of     2     after cats.

When she was a child, she     3     with her grandparents. At that time, her grandparents already had an old cat, about 11 years old,     4     she was only 4 years old. It was a good friend for her in her childhood. It was very     5     to her and never hurt her. One day, however, it left home and never came back again. It must be     6    . She was so sad that she was     7     for it for a long time.

Now Alice has four     8    . She takes good care of them and makes them live comfortable. But she is afraid to take her cats out of the house. She says it is too     9     for animals to go outside     10     she thinks that they must be hurt.