历届高考完形填空语篇荟萃(27)

（单词翻译:单击）

(二十七)
He has been called the "missing link". Half-man, half-beast. He is supposed to live in the highest mountain in the world-Mount¹ Everest.
He is Known as the Abominable² Snowman. The story of the Snowman has been around for many years. Climbers in the 19205 reported finding marks like those of human feet high up on the side of Mount Everest. The native People said they knew of this creature and called it the "Yeti", and they said that they had even caught Yetis on two occasions though none has ever been produced as evidence（证据）.
Over the years, the story of the Yetis has continued. In 1951, Eric Shipton took photographs of a set of tracks in the snow of Everest, Shipton believed that they were not simply the tracks of a monkey or bear and felt that the Abominable Snowman might really exist.
Further efforts have been made to find out about Yetis. But the only things people have ever found were more footprints. Most believe the footprints are nothing more than ordinary animal tracks, which had been made large as they melted(融化) and refroze in the snow. However, in 1964, a Russian scientist said that the Abominable Snowman was real and was a remaining link with the prehistoric³ humans. But, again, no evidence has ever actually been produced.
These days, only a few people continue to take the story of the Abominable Snowman seriously. But if they ever succeed in catching⁴ one, they may face a real problem. Would they put it in a zoo or give it a room in a hotel? [NMET2001]
简析：新闻综述，围绕雪人是否存在进行叙述。