The
Abominable Snowman El Abominable Hombre de las Nieves
He has been called the "missing link": half-man, half-beast.
He is huge, maybe as much as 2.5 meters (about 8 feet) tall.
His body is covered with long brown hair, but his face is
hairless. His head is pointed, but he looks like a man. He
walks upright, standing on two feet. He lives near the top of
the highest mountain in the world – Mount Everest. He is known
as the Abominable Snowman.
The legend of the Abominable
Snowman is not new. For years, local people have
reported seeing the creature they call "Yeti"
– the all-eating
animal – come down from the mountains and attack
villagers. Climbers in the 1920s reported stories of
huge footprints they saw high in the Himalayas – footprints unlike any animal's they had seen before.
In 1951, the explorer Eric Shipton
took photographs of enormous tracks in the snow of Mount
Everest. Shipton concluded that these footprints could
not have been the tracks of any ordinary animal. He
assumed that the Abominable Snowman really existed and
must have walked around in that area.
These days, few people still
believe in the Abominable Snowman. There have only been
footprints in the snow as evidence of this creature.
Scientists say there should have been more evidence.
They suggest that the tracks may have been bear tracks.
The sun can cause tracks to melt, and, when the tracks
refreeze, they look like large footprints, such as those
on Mount Everest. The fact is if anyone ever succeeds in
catching an Abominable Snowman, they may face a real
problem: Would they put it in a zoo or give it a room in
a hotel?
VOCABULARY
missing link:
eslabón perdido; half-beast:
mitad bestia; huge: enorme; hairless: lampiña; pointed:
angulosa, puntiaguda;
upright: derecho, erguido; have
reported seeing: han infomado haber visto;
creature: monstruo; villagers: aldeanos, lugareños;
climbers: andinistas; footprints: huellas
plantares; unlike any animal's: diferentes a las de
cualquier animal; enormous tracks: enormes huellas; concluded:
dedujo; assumed: supuso; evidence: constancia,
prueba; bear tracks: huellas de osos; to melt:
derretirse; refreeze: se recongelan; they look like:
se asemejan a; succeeds in
catching: tiene la suerte de atrapar; zoo:
zoológico.
Activity 131: Basándote en
los comentarios anteriores controla los siguientes comentarios y
selecciona del menú la opción más adecuada: TRUE(verdadero)
o FALSE (falso). Verifica luego las
respuestas correctas.
1.
The Abominable
Snowman was first seen by climbers in the 1920s.
2.
Scientists have
captured one of the Yetis.
3.
In 1951, Shipton took
photographs of a Yeti.
4.
Most scientists
believe Yetis really exist.
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