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 __36__ of the Snowman has been around for___37__. 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 __38__ this creature and called it the “Yeti”, and they said that they had ___39___ caught Yetis on two occasions ___40___ none has ever been produced as evidence (证据).

Over the years, the story of the Yetis has __41__. In 1951, Eric Shipton took photographs of a set of tracks in the snow of Everest. Shipton believed that they were not __42___ the tracks of a monkey or bear and ___43__that the Abominable Snowman might really ___44___.

Further efforts have been made to find out about Yetis. But the only things people have ever found were ___45___ footprints. Most believe the footprints are nothing more than __46___ animal tracks, which had been made ___47___ as the melted(融化) and refroze in the snow. ___48___, in 1964, a Russian scientist said that the Abominable Snowman was ___49__ and was a remaining link with the prehistoric humans. But, ___50__, no evidence has ever ___51__been produced.

These days, only a few people continue to take the story of Abominable Snowman _52__, But if they ever ___53___catching one, they may face a real __54__. Would they put it in a ___55__ or give it a room in a hotel?

36. A. event             B. story            C. adventure                 D. description

37. A. centuries         B. too long         C. some time                D. many years

38. A. heard from        B. cared for        C. knew of                   D. read about

39. A. even              B. hardly           C. certainly                  D. probably

40. A. as                B. though               C. when                     D. until

41. A. developed        B. changed         C. occurred                  D. continued

42. A. entirely           B. naturally         C. clearly                    D. simply

43. A. found             B. declared         C. felt                       D. doubted

44. A. exist              B. escape               C. disappear                 D. return

45. A. clearer           B. more            C. possible                   D. rare

46. A. huge             B. recent           C. ordinary                  D. frightening

47. A. strange           B. large            C. deep                      D. rough

48. A. In the end         B. Therefore        C. After all                   D. However

49. A. imagined         B. real             C. special                    D. familiar

50. A. so                B. besides          C. again                     D. instead

51. A. rightly            B. actually          C. normally                  D. particularly

52. A. lightly            B. jokingly          C. seriously                  D. properly

53. A. succeed in        B. insist on         C. depend on                D. join in

54. A. decision          B. situation         C. subject                        D. problem

55. A. zoo               B. mountain        C. museum                  D. laboratory

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