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(討厭的)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 Mount 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 as evidence(證據(jù))．

Over the years，the story of the Yetis has__6__. In 1916，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 they 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?

1．A. event B．story C．a(chǎn)dventure D．description

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

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

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

5．A. as B．though C．when　 D．until

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

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

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

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

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

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

12．A. strange B．large C．deep D．rough

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

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

15．A. so B．besides C．a(chǎn)gain D．instead

16．A. rightly B．a(chǎn)ctually C．normally D．particularly

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

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

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

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

We'll ____ three days in finishing the work.

　　 A. take　　 　B. cost　　　　 C. pay　　　　 D. spend