Wool comes from sheep and certain other animals like goats and rabbits. Over a million tonnes of wool is produced every year, of (26)...... 1 60% goes into clothes. The wool that is used (27)........... 2 comes from Australian Merino sheep. Their wool is good for baby clothes, as it is soft, (28)............ 3 babies warm, and can (29).......... 4 their bodies. When wool is first cut from the sheep, it (30)..................5 a high level of a valuable oil, so before the wool is used, it must be cleaned. The (31)............ 6 way to do this is by putting the wool in warm water. The oil that is (32)................ 7 from the wool is widely used in products like hand creams. Sheep were first used by humans several thousand years ago, (33)........ 8 it is believed that this was for meat (34)............ 9 than wool. When people developed a way of cutting the wool from sheep it (35)............. 10 a more important material.