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?
1. A. event         B. story      C. adventure     D. description
2. A. centuries     B. too long     C. some time    D. many years
3. A. heard from    B. cared for    C. knew of       D. read about
4. A. even              B. hardly     C. certainly       D. probably
5. A. as          B. though          C. when        D. until
6. A. developed      B. changed     C. occurred       D. continued
7. A. entirely     B. naturally    C. clearly             D. simply
8. A. found        B. declared     C. felt           D. doubled
9. A. exist              B. escape     C. disappear      D. return
10. A. clearer     B. more      C. possible        D. rare
11. A. huge        B. recent     C. ordinary       D. frightening
12. A. strange     B. large      C. deep         D. rough
13. A. In the end    B. Therefore   C. After all       D. However
14. A. imagined     B. real        C. special             D. familiar
15. A. so         B. besides       C. again        D. instead
16. A. rightly     B. actually      C. normally      D. particularly
17. A. lightly     B. jokingly     C. seriously      D. properly
18. A. succeed in    B. insist on     C. depend on    D. join in
19. A. decision          B. situation     C. subject             D. problem
20. A. zoo         B. mountain    C. museum       D. Laboratory