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 Snowman has been around for ___2__ Climbers in the1920s 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__. In1951, Eric Ship ton took photographs of a set of tracks in the snow of Everest. Ship ton 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__ foot prints. 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．adventure

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．again

D．instead

16.

A．right

B．actually

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

 

答案：B;D;C;A;B;D;D;C;A;B;C;B;D;B;C;B;C;A;D;A
解析：

1．本句動(dòng)詞為has been around，意思是has existed，例如：

    Mobile phones have been around(=existed)for quite a while．

    從該動(dòng)詞語義的延續(xù)特征看，前面的主語(即此空中)不會(huì)是具體的某一項(xiàng)event(=anything that happened)；也不是一次adventure(=an unusual，exciting and possibly dangerous activity，journey，experience，etc)，因此，可以排除A、C兩項(xiàng)。

    如果說是the description(=what sth．／sb．is like)of the Snowman，也難以涵蓋短文所講述的內(nèi)容，至少還有關(guān)于它的發(fā)現(xiàn)、蹤跡等等，因此，也可以排除D項(xiàng)。

    從本段與以下幾段的內(nèi)容看，講述的都是有關(guān)the Snowman的傳說，也就是story(=an account of events， real or imagined；注意是“一系列”events)。B項(xiàng)在語義和結(jié)構(gòu)上都能滿足要求，可為最佳答案。

    下段開頭也再次提及story，采用了“返指”手段，體現(xiàn)全文的呼應(yīng)與一致。本題的解題思路說明，考生如能按照要求通讀全文，具備一定的語篇意識(shí)，則能更為迅速準(zhǔn)確地找到答案。

2．此處意為Snowman存在的故事已經(jīng)流傳已久，干擾項(xiàng)為A項(xiàng)centuries，因?yàn)橹榉甯浇僳E罕至，有人記述該故事?
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