Name:_________________________		Date:_______________
Cloze Passage (4.1) Read the passage carefully and fill in the blanks with the most suitable word. Mammals In The Sea

Most _______________ of mammals live on land. But mammal ____________ like whales, dolphins, seals and sea-lions live in the sea. ____________ they can stay in water for long _____________ of time. Like all other mammals, they breathe air and need to surface surface from time to time to breathe. People often ____________ whales for fish because they look so much like fish. Being mammals, whales have hair, they are warm- blooded and their __________ drink milk from their mothers' bodies. If a whale stays __________ too long, it will drown. Although whales are big, most of them do not eat big things ______________ whales' throats are very narrow. Dolphins are small whales. They are playful and often _______ out of the water. Seals and sea lions are slightly ___________ from whales. They are ____________ to come to land and ___________ about on their fin-feet.

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