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__38this 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__43that 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__45footprints. Most believe the footprints are nothing more than__46animal tracks,which had been made__47as they 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 the Abominable Snowman__52.But if they ever__53_catching one,they may face a real__54  :Would they put it in a__55or 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