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    As the effects of global warming, rising seas and natural disasters become more serious {#blank#}1{#/blank#} before, some local communities are taking action. Among them is one community in Florida {#blank#}2{#/blank#} local people and government officials are proving successful in protecting {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (coast) cities from the dangers of rising sea levels.

    The community has studied how much sea levels will rise and has suggested {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (way) to address the problem. It has persuaded the state government {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (ban) new developments on land near the coastline and recommended building sand dunes (沙丘) along beaches. Kristin Jacobs, one of the group's founders, decided to take action in 2008 after it became {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (gradual) clear that her state's 27 water authorities couldn't agree on joint (联合的) action.

    While some Florida government officials doubt whether the climate will become hotter or {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (cold), the people {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (live) in these locations are certain of the need to protect their communities.

    At present, coming up with ways to fight against the effects of climate change under an limited budget {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (be) a pressing concern. Only time will tell whether these coastal communities will succeed in {#blank#}10{#/blank#} end.

    Many of you fail to seek your purpose in life. You dream and then follow it up with a list of reasons {#blank#}1{#/blank#} the dream is unachievable. You fill your life with different {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (excuse) and "I can't", which gradually leave your dreams {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (break).

    Many great companies came from a dream, were nurtured (培育) in a garage or basement and {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (grow) to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Why not you? Why not your dream? The only true limits you experience in life are those you create or those you allow others {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (put) on you. If you can dream it, you can do it!

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Photographers Turn Their Cameras on Pets

In 2019 photographers Kendrick Brinson and David Walter Banks visited 14 countries on assignment. When the couple described the adventures {#blank#}1{#/blank#}they had experienced when photographing, people invariably asked, "But who takes care of your four cats and dogs?" They joked that the pet siter made a lot of money.

But 2020 couldn't have been {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(different). Due to COVID-19, Brinson and Banks never left the United States. Often, they didn't even leave their Los Angeles neighborhood. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} {#blank#}4{#/blank#}spending long hours in airport security lines and waiting-for the perfect lighting, the pair stayed along with dogs Tux and Tia and cats Rex and Kudzu. "Our pets became emotional therapy animals, and our only friends we could safely hug in a world {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(strike) by a deadly pandemic," Banks said.

As COVID-19 lockdowns swept across the world in March of 2020, the change made an especially great impact on photographers, who are accustomed to {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(spend) long periods abroad. And so many cameras {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(turn) on a domestic subject: the pet.

Research suggests that pets have offered emotional support during the pandemic, helping {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(make) the long days of isolation more bearable, says Emily MeCobb, a clinical associate professor at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. In fact, the pandemic has sped up a trend, according to McCobb's and other scientists' observation, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} the pet is becoming a member of the family. "In the past 20 to 30 years, the role of the pet in the family {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(take) on a whole new role," says MeCobb." It really hasn't been that long {#blank#}11{#/blank#}these furry child substitutes gained this kind of importance in American society."