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Hundreds of thousands of people along the US coast from New Orleans to northwest Florida were told to leave their homes on September 14 as deadly Hurricane Ivan roared（咆哮）into the Gulf of Mexico after striking western Cuba.

Ivan one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes on records killed at least 68 people on a weeklong strike through the Caribbean as it caused widespread damage in Grenada Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. It picked up roofs and downed trees and power lines when it roared past Cube on Monday night but the island was spared a direct hit and there were no reported deaths.

Ivan carrying winds of up to 140 mph covered an area of several hundred miles from the beaches of the Florida Panhandle west through coastal Alabama and Mississippi to the flood-prone historic jazz city of New Orleans where officials told residents to get out. Storm-weary Florida authorities（官方） preparing for a third hurricane strike in just over a month told about 543 000 people to leave from the mobile homes and flood-prone coastal areas in at least 10 counties in the western Panhandle.

Oil companies called back thousands of worker from offshore rigs（钻塔）and shut down some offshore rigs in the Gulf of Mexico home of about a quarter of US oil and gas output. Ivan’s menacing presence pushed up world oil prices which rose by more than 50 cents a barrel.

Its top winds were down from a peak of 165 mph on Saturday when the US National Hurricane Center said it was the sixth strongest Atlantic hurricane on record. But its hurricane-force winds extended out 105 miles.

57．The main ideas of the passage is that______.

A．Ivan caused serious damage to America B．Ivan will attack the south of America

C．Ivan ended in America D．Ivan caused great damage to Florida

58．The underlined word “menacing” （in Paragraph 4） means “________”.

A．frequent B．sudden C．coming D．frightening

59．According to the passage we are sure that _______.

A．Alabama isn’t a coastal state

B．the oil from the Gulf of Mexico plays an important part in America

C．the wind force of Ivan was the fifth strongest on record

D．before Ivan arrives America it has just attacked the Cayman Islands

60. What writing methods are used in the passage?

A. facts and figures B. facts only C. opinions only D. data only