例1(NMET 2001)
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___5__caught Yetis on two occasions
___4 __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
( )turies B.too long C.some time D.many years