Now, ratchet up the calculations for a hurricane about the size of Missouri and the figures get really massive. "What we're doing is weighing the water in one cubic meter theoretically pulled from a cloud and then multiplying by the number of meters in a whole hurricane," she explains.

　　The result? Forty million elephants. That means the water in one hurricane weighs more than all the elephants on the planet. Perhaps even more than all the elephants that have ever lived on the planet.

　　64. The weight of

　　is NOT mentioned in the passage.

　　A. a cumulus cloud

　　B. a tornado

　　C. a hurricane

　　D. a storm cloud

　　65. How did Peggy LeMone feel about the result of her calculations?

　　A. She found it not convincing.

　　B. She thought it needed further calculations.

　　C. She was quite surprised at it.

　　D. She considered the calculations inaccurate.

　　66. What can be inferred from the passage?

　　A. A storm cloud weighs about 200,000 elephants.

　　B. The water in a hurricane weighs more than that in any other kind of cloud.

　　C. There are less than forty million elephants living on the earth.

　　D. The water in the cloud is in very tiny partials.

　　D

　　LIPITOR

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