He has been called the "missing link" Half-man, half-beast. He is supposed to live in the highest mountain in the world — Mount

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问题     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【C1】______of the Snowman has been around for【C2】______. 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【C3】______this creature and called it the " Yeti" , and they said that they had【C4】________caught Yetis on two occasions【C5】______none has ever been produced as evidence(证据).
    Over the years, the story of the Yetis has【C6】______. In 1951, Eric Shipton took photographs of a set of tracks in the snow of Everest. Shipton believed that they were not【C7】______the tracks of a monkey or bear and【C8】______that the Abominable Snowman might really【C9】______.
    Further efforts have been made to find out about Yetis. But the only things people have ever found were【C10】______footprints. Most believe the footprints are nothing more than【C11】______animal tracks, which had been made【C12】______as they melted(融化)and refroze in the snow.【C13】______, in 1964, a Russian scientist said that the Abominable Snowman was【C14】______and was a remaining link with the prehistoric humans. But,【C15】______, no evidence has ever【C16】______been produced.
    These days, only a few people continue to take the story of the Abominable Snowman【C17】______. But if they ever【C18】______catching one, they may face a real【C19】______: would they put it in a【C20】______or give it a room in a hotel?
【C2】

选项 A、centuries
B、too long
C、some time
D、many years

答案D

解析 前后照应逻辑推理,雪人的传说已经流传有好些年(years)了。从第二段的in the 1920s…,第三段的in 1951…,第四段的in 1964…,以及第五段的These years可以推断出关于snowman的话题是近几十年的事情。最早的报道始于1920s,它距今不足百年,排除A项centuries;B项“too long”并非相对于什么时间而言;C项“sometime”的时间量并不明确,也可以排除。
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