55. A. anything
B. everything C. harm
D. wrong
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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 l920s 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 l95l, 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 l964, 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?