【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 hat hit the country on April 21．Hundreds more are missing or feared dead．The two ferries sank in different rivers near the capital city of Dhakfi as strong winds and rain hit the South Asian country．The government has since banned all ferries and other boats from traveling at night during the AprilMay stormy season．One of the ferries，MV Mitali，was carrying far more people than it was supposed to．About 400 passengers fitted into a space made for just 300，police said．The second ferry carried about 100 passengers．“The number of deaths is certain to rise．”said an official in charge of the rescue work．“No one really knows how many people were on board the ferry or how many of them survived．” Ferries in Bangladesh don’t always keep passenger lists，making it difficult to determine the exact number of people on board．Besides the ferry accidents，at least 40 people were killed and 400 injured by lightning strikes．falling houses and trees and the sinking of small boats．Storms are mon this time of year in Bangladesh，as are boating accidents．Ferry disasters take away hundreds of lives every year in a nation of 130 million people．Officials blame these river accidents on a lack of safety measures, too many passengers in boats and not enough checks on weather conditions．Ferries are a mon means of transport in Bangladesh．It is a country covered by about 230 rivers．Some 20,000 ferries use the nation’s Waterways every year．And many of them are dangerously overcrowded．Since 1977, more than 3,000 people have died in some 260 boating accidents．51．________ people have been found dead in the two ferry disasters．A．Over 130 B．At least 40 C．About 400 D．Over 3，000 52．The two ferry disasters occurred_______．A．a(chǎn)t noon B．in the morning C．a(chǎn)t night D．In the afternoon53．________ passengers was MV Mitali designed to carry? A．500 B．100 C．400 D．300 54．Officials attribute boating accident to ________ A．strong winds． B．bad weather conditions．C．the blockages of waterways． D．the lack of safety measures．55．Which of the following statements is NOT true of the two ferry disasters? A．They were overcrowded．B．They sank on April 21．C．The exact number of deaths could be easily determined．D．They sank somewhere near Dhaka．(B)Long before the white man came to America, the land belonged to the American Indian nations．The nation of the Cherokees lived in what is now the southeastern part of the United States．After the white man came, the Cherokees copied many of their ways．One Cherokee named Sequoyah saw how important reading and writing was to the white man．He decided to invent a way to write down the spoken Cherokee language．He began by making word pictures．For each word he drew a picture．But that proved impossible there were just too many words．Then he took the 85 sounds that made up the language．Using his own imagination and an English spelling book, Sequoyah invented a sign for each sound．His alphabet proved amazingly easy to learn．Before long, many Cherokees knew how to read and write in their own language．By 1828, they were even printing their own newspaper．In 1830, the U．S．Congress passed a law．It allowed the government to remove Indians from their lands．The Cherokees refused to go．They had lived on their lands for centuries．It belonged to them．Why should they go to a strange land far beyond the Mississippi River?The army was sent to drive the Cherokees out．Soldiers surrounded their villages and marched them at gunpoint into the western territory．The sick, the old and the small children went in carts, along with their belongings．The rest of the people marched on foot or rode on horseback．It was November, yet many of them still wore their summer clothes．Cold and hun