Building after building under water.【B1】______ in shelters. Thousands of others unsure where to go.【B2】______ for help. Anarchy.

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问题 Building after building under water.【B1】______ in shelters. Thousands of others unsure where to go.【B2】______ for help. Anarchy. Bodies in streets. This is what one of America’s historic cities was【B3】______ to this week by a powerful storm, Katrina.
    Officials want everyone still left in New Orleans, Louisiana, to leave for now. The【B4】______ of New Orleans says thousands may be dead.【B5】______ Katrina also caused death and【B6】______ in parts of Mississippi and Alabama along the Gulf of Mexico. Federal officials reported Friday that more than one million five hundred thousand homes and businesses【B7】______ without electric power.
    New Orleans is famous for its wild Mardi Gras【B8】______ and night life in the French Quarter.【B9】______ . New Orleans has depended on levees, dams made of earth, to control floods from the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain.
    Katrina struck on Monday. New Orleans avoided a direct hit. But two of the levees failed the next day. Most of the city was flooded. Helicopters dropped huge sandbags to fill the breaks.【B10】______ .
    America faces one of the worst natural events in its history. President Bush says the recovery will take years.【B11】______ The Bush administration is expected to ask for more in the weeks to come.
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答案Yet the city of nearly five hundred thousand people was built below sea level.

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