2026年课时特训八年级英语下册外研版第15页答案
Ⅱ. Complete the passage with proper words or the correct forms of the words given.
An Otter Gets a Job
An otter lives in rivers or oceans. It can swim fast and it is clever.

Can an otter have a job? Recently, in Florida, US, the policemen
1.
have got
(get) an otter as a new helper. 2.
His
(he) name is Splash.
Splash's job is not easy in the police office. He gets up early and works hard. Splash 3.
is trained
(train) by his "teacher", Michael Hadsel. Mr Hadesel is 4.
a
policeman with 46 years of experience in training police dogs. Police dogs have a strong sense 5.
of
smell, so they can find people on mountaintops and even under snow. But what about under water?
Otters can breathe and "smell" with their 6.
mouths
(mouth) in the water. Then how can Splash find people instead? It is known that human bodies give off over 500 special chemicals*. Splash learns about them 7.
carefully
(careful) by blowing out bubbles. These bubbles will meet human chemicals. The special chemicals then stay on Splash's bubbles. Splash will breathe some of the bubbles back into the body 8.
and
taste them. When Splash finds something, he will touch a tool on his body 9.
to tell
(tell) Hadsel and other policemen.
With 10.
surprising
(surprise) skills, which animal would be the next to get a job to help the police?

答案

Ⅱ. 1. have got 2. His 3. is trained 4. a 5. of 6. mouths 7. carefully 8. and 9. to tell 10. surprising