20. C 懂事的儿女让母亲感到欣慰，自然这是一个快乐的母亲节。
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The
Abominable Snowman 喜马拉雅雪人
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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 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?