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 Snowman has been around for ___2___. Climbers in the 1920s reported finding marks like those of human feet high up on the side of Mount 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 as 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 they 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