Question

The Abominable Snowman 喜馬拉雅雪人

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（證據(jù)）.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A. found      B. declared     C. felt     D. doubled

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Answer 1

【小題1】B

【小題2】D

【小題3】C

【小題4】A

【小題5】B

【小題6】D

【小題7】D

【小題8】C

【小題9】A

【小題10】B

【小題11】C

【小題12】B

【小題13】D

【小題14】B

【小題15】C

【小題16】B

【小題17】C

【小題18】A

【小題19】D

【小題20】A

解析:

本文是一篇以介紹一種“半人半獸”的生物Yeti為主要內(nèi)容的說明文。主要介紹了其特征、居住地以及關(guān)于它的傳說故事。1、2、10、11、12、14、20題偏重于考查對文章內(nèi)容的理解；3、6、8、9、18、19題考查詞匯（包括詞組、動詞、名詞）的辨析；4、7、13、15、16、17題要求根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容判斷適當(dāng)?shù)母痹~（短語）；第5題考查連詞。

【小題1】后文敘述的是關(guān)于Yeti的傳說故事，故選story。

【小題2】從1920年開始被發(fā)現(xiàn)，至今應(yīng)有“許多年了”。

【小題3】當(dāng)?shù)厝朔Q這種生物為Yeti，肯定是“知道”它以及關(guān)于它的事。

【小題4】“抓住”比“知道”更進(jìn)一步，用even表示強調(diào)程度的加深。

【小題5】“曾經(jīng)抓到”與“沒有證據(jù)”之間為轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系，即“雖然……但是……”。

【小題6】第二段講述了關(guān)于Yeti的一個傳說故事，后文中將有新的介紹。故可知“故事”在“繼續(xù)”。

【小題7】Shipton相信這些“腳印”不簡簡單單為“猴子”或“熊”的腳印，故選simply。

【小題8】felt與believed是并列的謂語動詞，意為“感覺到”。

【小題9】Shipton感覺這種動物可能真的存在。

【小題10】人們發(fā)現(xiàn)的僅僅是“更多”的腳印。

【小題11】許我人相信這些腳印只不過是那些普通動物（比如猴子或熊）留下的。

【小題12】“普通的腳印”看起來不“普通”，是因為其在雪里融化而變“大”了。

【小題13】前文介紹了一些人腳印的判斷，而后文是一位俄國科學(xué)家的新發(fā)現(xiàn)。故判斷出兩部分之間應(yīng)用 however轉(zhuǎn)折。

【小題14】real意為“真的，存在的”。

【小題15】前面提到過，當(dāng)?shù)厝说陌l(fā)現(xiàn)和傳說沒有證據(jù)可依，這一次“又”是如此。

【小題16】沒有證據(jù)被實際記載。

【小題17】take … seriously意為“把……當(dāng)回事（嚴(yán)肅認(rèn)真對待）”。

【小題18】succeed in doing意為“成功地做成某事”。

【小題19】face a problem意為“面臨問題”。    

【小題20】前文提到這種生物“半人半獸”，那么如果人們真的抓住一個，將面臨的問題是：把它放到動物園（當(dāng)它是動物？）還是在旅館里給它一個房間（當(dāng)它是人？）