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* Module 6　Unexplained Mysteries of the Natural World教材背景链接 名言佳句 In all natural things there is something of the marvelous.—Aristotle 大自然万物之中都有其非凡之处。——亚里士多德 Nature never deceives us；it is always us who deceive ourselves. —Rousseau. 大自然永远不会欺骗我们，欺骗我们的往往是我们自己。 ——卢梭 Although the world is full of suffering，it is full also of the overcoming of it. —Hellen Keller，American writer 虽然世界多苦难，但是苦难总是能战胜的。 ——美国作家海伦·凯勒 类文欣赏 在世界上所有神秘的动物中，最让人着迷神往的就是传说中的喜马拉雅山雪人。有关雪人的传说逐渐被神秘动物学家承认，无数探险家来到喜马拉雅山地区，寻找这个给人类带来无限幻想空间的神秘动物。 Climbers to search for Abominable Snowman A Japanese expedition equipped with infrared cameras will scour the Nepali Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti，or Abominable Snowman，the team leader said on Monday. Yoshiteru Takahashi said he had seen footprints on Mount Dhaulagiri during trips to the world’s seventh-highest mountain in the 1970s and 1990s which he believed belonged to the Yeti. “They (the footprints) were very，very close to human footsteps，” Takahashi，the 60-year-old who works in a housing firm in Tokyo，told Reuters. “I’ll take pictures and shake hands if I meet him.But we will not capture it...The existence of that creature has to be proved.” Takahashi said his 14-member team would leave on Saturday and spend six weeks on the slopes of the 8,167-meter (26,795-feet) mountain to track down the mythical hairy，ape-like creature believed to live in the snowy caves. The team comprises seven Japanese climbers and seven Nepali sherpas (夏尔巴人) and will take cameras that can detect body temperature. The mysterious Yeti seized the world’s imagination during a drive by foreign climbers to scale Mount Everest between the 1920s and 1950s，when Sherpa porters recounted local legends about hairy wild men lurking in the mountains. Many teams have been on Yeti hunts since the 1950s