《2025年同步学习目标与检测九年级英语全一册》

二、阅读理解
Is there a strange thing high up in the world’s tallest mountains? If so, is it a big bear? Is it a monkey? Or is it a kind of man?
No one knows. This mystery has puzzled (困惑) the world for years. In 1887, a mountain climber found large footprints in the snow. They looked like the footprints of a very large man. But men don’t walk without shoes in the snow!
In 1906, another climber saw more footprints. Far off, he saw a very large animal standing on two legs. As he watched, it ran very quickly.
Fifteen years later, newspaper had new stories about the “something”. A mountain climber said he had seen the “snowman” walk slowly across the snow, far below him. He said it looked like a very large man. From then on, more and more people had stories to tell. But not until 1951 did a mountain climber bring back pictures of large footprints. The pictures showed clearly that the snowman walked on two legs. Could it be an ape (猿) man? The mystery grew! Someday we may find out just what it is that makes the large footprints.
根据短文内容,判断正误。(正确的填“T”,错误的填“F”)
1. The passage is mainly about the mystery of the snowman. ( )
2. The underlined word “footprints” in the passage means “a mark in the shape of a foot that a person or animal makes in or on a surface”. ( )
3. People were interested in the footprints because they looked like the footprints of a large man. ( )
4. The pictures of large footprints were taken by a mountain climber in 1951. ( )
5. Since a mountain climber first found the large footprints in the snow, the mystery of the snowman has puzzled the world for less than one hundred years. ( )

答案： 1.T 2.T 3.T 4.T 5.F