One night in March 1999, a man was driving from California to Oregon, US, to visit some friends. He had stopped his car to have some food when he started to hear strange noises. Turning on the headlights, he saw an 8-foot-tall creature covered in thick, dark hair. The creature stared at him for a minute, turned in the road and walked off slowly into the woods.

In the past 50 years alone, there have been thousands of reported sightings of similar creatures in the US, Canada, the Himalayas(喜馬拉雅山地區(qū))and even Hubei Province in China. The creature is known as bigfoot.
Bigfoot is said to be a very tall(between 2 and 4. 5 metres), ape-like(類(lèi)人猿似的)creature that is covered in hair and walks upright on two legs. It is very wary(警惕的)of human beings.
Believers think bigfoot is a direct descendent(后代)of ancient gigantopithecus(巨猿). But it remains one of the planet’s undiscovered secrets. There is a little evidence(證據(jù))to support the believers’ theory: traces of hair, footprints and body prints as well as the reported sightings. Some people have even showed what they say with photos or films of bigfoot.
But so far, no one has found bones or any other definite proof that the giant creature exists.
As a result many people believe the evidence is just part of a big trick.
The footprints are easy to make and they say: all you need to do is to make two large feet out of plaster(石膏), attach them to the bottom of your shoes and walk with big steps. As for the photos and films, they are just people dressed in ape suits.
They also say the sightings are not real, just people making mistakes. For example, bigfoot could be a bear living in the wild that sometimes stands up on its back legs.
小題1: So far what we can be sure about is that　　　　.
A．there exist savages(野人)in several places in the world
B．there are some traces of hair, footprints and body prints of the “bigfoot”
C．bigfoot is a direct descendent of ancient gigantopithecus
D．a(chǎn)ll the big foot discovered have the same look
小題2:It was in　　　that man first found the ape-like creature.
A．1999 B．the 1960’s
C．the 1950’sD．the 1940’s
小題3: The article infers but doesn’t say so that some people　　　　bigfoot’s existence.
A．may fool the world into believing
B．have definite evidences to prove
C．refuse to believe
D．will soon offer proofs of
小題4:If bigfoot is just a misunderstanding, what they saw might NOT be　　　　.
A．a(chǎn)pes
B．bears
C．gigantopithecus
D．people dressed in animal skins

小題1:B
小題2:C
小題3:A
小題4:C

【文章大意】本文描述了“雪人”的一些目擊證據(jù)并對(duì)其進(jìn)行了分析說(shuō)明, 也給出了一些相對(duì)比較科學(xué)的猜測(cè)。
小題1:選B。細(xì)節(jié)理解題。的確是有“bigfoot”留下的痕跡, 到底bigfoot是誰(shuí)留下的, 誰(shuí)也沒(méi)有把握, A項(xiàng)屬于將猜測(cè)的東西當(dāng)成事實(shí); C項(xiàng)是一些人的“認(rèn)為”; D項(xiàng)與文章描述不符。
小題2:選C。細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段第一句“In the past 50 years alone, there have been thousands of reported sightings of similar creatures in the US, Canada, the Himalayas and even Hubei Province in China. ”推測(cè)可知是the 1950’s。
小題3:選A。推理判斷題。由文章中“As a result many people believe the evidence is just part of a big trick. ”作者在暗示有人有意捏造證據(jù), 騙人相信。
小題4:選C。推理判斷題。如果真的是gigantopithecus留下的腳印, 那就證明的確有這樣的動(dòng)物, 而整篇文章都是用的推測(cè)的語(yǔ)氣, 由此可得答案為C。
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