B

　　Water, water every where.

　　It lasted almost two months , but in August it ended. It left 45 people dead and $10 billion worth of damage in nine states of USA. It was quite a big Mississippi flood ever recorded.

　　In St.Louis, Missouri, 9,000 people were forced to leave their homes while the city was in danger. St. Louis is just downriver from the points where the Missouri and Illinois Rivers flow into the Mississippi. All three rivers were flooding. But the city escaped the worst when levees (堤) broke upriver. A levee is built of river sand and clay(粘土).

　　Eleven miles of flood walls were built in the late 1960's The walls are 18 inches thick and 5 to 22 feet high. They were designed to protect against a 52-foot flood. In St. Louis, water almost reached the top of flood walls. It measured 49.4 feet.

　　41.The flood referred to in the passage _____.

　　A. was the heaviest one in the history　B. happened in Missouri and Illinois states

　　C. happened in less than twenty percent of the states of U.S.A.

　　D. was recorded several times

　　42. The meaning of the sentence "But the city escaped the worst" is that _____.

　　A. many people escaped from the city　B. the flood attacked the city heavily

　　C. the flood did not attack the city at all D. the city avoided the worst situation

　　43. The highest flood referred to in the passage was about ______.

　　A. 18 feet high　B. 5-22 feet high C. nearly 50 feet high D. 52 feet high

　　C

　　In hopes of becoming millionaires, many Filipinos (菲律賓人) began drinking more Pepsi. They hoped to get a bottle cap with the winning number on it. In May 1992, the number was announced: 349. Thousands rushed to get their reward with their bottle caps worth a million pesos (about US $ 40,000) each.

　　But Pepsi wouldn't pay. The company said there was a mistake. The numbers on the caps did not include a security code (保險號), so the caps were not really winners. Up to 800,000 bottle caps had the number 349.

　　Pepsi has spent millions of dollars on the problem. The company has paid 54 million pesos to real winners. It also paid 500 pesos for each No.349 cap without the security code.

　　44. Which of the following is not true?

　　A. All those who got the number of 349 got some money

　　B. All those who got the number of 349 didn't get the same amount of money

　　C. None of those who get the number of 349 wasn't rewarded

　　D. The company made a mistake so as to sell more pepsi

　　45. From the passage we can guess that peso is _________.

　　A. the name of a person　　　B. a kind of drink

　　C. the name of a company　　 D. none of the above

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