M: Maths Department, Doctor Webster (76)s .
W: Hello , Professor Webster, this is Janet Wang calling . I’m living two doors (77)f
Your teaching assistant, Ken Williams , Ken asked me to call you (78)b he has lost his voice and can’t talk to you (79)h .
M: Lost his voice ? Oh, what a (80)s ! Is there anything I can do for you ?
W: Well , Ken has a class this afternoon from two thirty to four and he won’t be able to teach it , but he doesn’t want to (81)c it either.
M: Want me to try to find somebody else to teach the class ?
W: No , not (82)e . What he wants to do is to get someone to go in for him, just to pass back the mid-term exam papers. He’s already (83) m them and they are on the desk in his office. The whole thing wouldn’t take more than ten minutes.
M: His class (84)b at two thirty, eh ? Well, I’m afraid at that time I’ll be on (85)c anyway, so I can do it for him .
W: Thank you very much , Professor Webster.
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
35．-I am really angry with Jane, she never listens to me .
- , things will work out .
A．Take your time B．No problem C．Take it easy D．I am sorry
34．-What about the books ?
-Books of this kind well.
A．sell B．sells C．are sold D．is sold
33．We wanted to finish the task before dark, but it didn’t quite as planned.
A．turn out B．make out C．go on D．come up