Read the text and fill in the gaps with the parts of the sentences. There is one extra part
How Animals Behave
- who had plenty of animals
- until the mouse is close
- hold the weight
- fumble its way back
- towards their victims
- are good at sprinting too
- is active at night time
There are different types of animals who move in a completely different way. For example, let's take a cat. Cats are predators although they are small. They also can see in the dark pretty well. If you have a cat you might have noticed that your lovely pet can play, walk or even steal food when it's dark. If it hears a mouse scratching somewhere under the floor, it puts its ears straight and listens. Then if it has a purpose for catching it, it will hide somewhere and wait [ ]. And here the situation becomes an incredible tale of survival! When the mouse gets out of its hole, the cat starts to creep towards its victim and then makes a sudden jump – and the prey is caught… or the mouse is determined not to die and manages to hide in her hole against all odds.
Or we may think of a snail. I bet you think snails are very slow and boring animals. But I can persuade you that it is an error. They are as dexterous as mountaineers! They can crawl onto great heights and their sticky bodies help them to [ ] – they don't even have to use the rope! I have a friend who breeds Giant African Snails.Once she noticed that one of her snails was not in the tank. My friend was watching everywhere and couldn't find the snail when suddenly she glanced at the table. Her snail reached the table, crawled onto it and somehow got into a pile of documents lying there. Probably the snail had not been able to see anything and tried to [ ]. But it didn't succeed so this snail decided to gnaw the documents that were very important to my friend! She was happy to find her pet but was really angry with it for having eaten her documents.
One of the fastest animals is a cheetah. This huge cat can follow its victim for a really long time, it's fearless and invincible. Do you watch programs about animals on TV? Then you probably have seen how cheetahs sprint [ ]. What can I say? Nobody wants to stay hungry – even predators. If you can't run fast, it means you have been sent to a certain death. You are saved only if you have a 21,000-foot peak in front of you and you are sure you won't slip! And by the way, if you think that turtles can only dawdle, you are certainly wrong. There are turtles that move very fast and [ ]. But of course, turtles are not as fast as cheetahs.
One of the cutest animals on the planet is a hedgehog… until you have decided to have it as a pet. That is because this small animal is also a predator and [ ]. My mates with hedgehogs often complain that their pets stomp angrily at night and don't give any chance to sleep well. So, one of them even had to face an agonising decision to give her hedgehog back to the shop. And yes, if you like wandering somewhere in the forest, watch where you are going because the spiny hedgehogs may stomp right under your feet!