The Abominable Snowman喜马拉雅雪人
He has been called the “missing link.” Half-man, half-beast. He is supposed to live in the highest mountain in the world-Mount Everest.
He is known as the Abominable Snowman. The
1 of the Snowman has been around for
__2 . Climbers in the 1920s reported finding marks like those of human feet high up on the side of Mound Everest. The native people said they
3 this creature and called it the “Yeti,”and they said that they had
4 caught Yetis on two occasions
5 none has ever been produced an evidence（证据）.
Over the years, the story of the Yetis has
6 . In 1951, Eric Shipton took photographs of a set of tracks in the snow of Everest. Shipton believed that they were not
7 the tracks of a monkey or bear and
8 that the Abominable Snowman might really
9 .
Further efforts have been made to find out about Yetis. But the only things people have ever found were
10 footprints. Most believe the footprints are nothing more than
11 animal tracks, which had been made
12 as the melted（融化）and refroze in the snow.
13 , in 1964, a Russian scientist said that the Abominable Snowman was
14 and was a remaining link with the prehistoric humans. But,
15 . no evidence has ever
16 been produced.
These days, only a few people continue to take the story of the Abominable Snowman __
17 . But if they ever
18 catching one, they may face a real
19 : Would they put it in a
20 or give it a room in a hotel?
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| 小题2: | | A．centuries | B．too long | C．some time | D．many years |
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| 小题3: | | A．heard from | B．cared for | C．knew of | D．read about |
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| 小题5: | | A．as | B．though | C．when | D．until |
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| 小题6: | | A．developed | B．changed | C．occurred | D．continued |
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| 小题7: | | A．entirely | B．naturally | C．clearly | D．simply |
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| 小题8: | | A．found | B．declared | C．felt | D．doubled |
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| 小题9: | | A．exist | B．escape | C．disappear | D．return |
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| 小题10: | | A．clearer | B．more | C．possible | D．rare |
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| 小题11: | | A．huge | B．recent | C．ordinary | D．frightening |
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| 小题12: | | A．strange | B．large | C．deep | D．rough |
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| 小题13: | | A．In the end | B．Therefore | C．After all | D．However |
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| 小题14: | | A．imagined | B．real | C．special | D．familiar |
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| 小题15: | | A．so | B．besides | C．again | D．instead |
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| 小题16: | | A．rightly | B．actually | C．normally | D．particularly |
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| 小题17: | | A．lightly | B．jokingly | C．seriously | D．properly |
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| 小题18: | | A．succeed in | B．insist on | C．depend on | D．join in |
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| 小题19: | | A．decision | B．situation | C．subject | D．problem |
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| 小题20: | | A．zoo | B．mountain | C．museum | D．laboratory |
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