Reading passages

287- It is stated in the passage that, when the ice 
melted towards the end of the last ice age, ------- .
A)the waters of the Mediterranean rose and forced a 
way thorough to the Black Sea 
B) several new seas came into being including the 
Mediterranean and the Black Sea 
C) the people living along the Bosphorus moved 
inland to avoid flooding 
D) the Mediterranean and the Black Sea once more 
became a unified ocean 
E) there was considerable flooding thought it was 
not on the scale of that known as Noah's flood 
288- It is pointed out in the passage that the Black 
Sea flooded the land around it ------- .
A) until all the ice at the poles had melted 
B) and thus the Bosphorus was formed 
C) as it was cut off from the Mediterranean 
D) when the last ice age peaked 12,000 years ago 
E) at a rate of a mile a day 
 
Mr. Mellon senior was a successful businessman 
whose golden touch gave him a grip on much of 
American industry, covering power, mining, civil 
engineering and insurance. The son, Paul Mellon, 
was a very different sort of person, but no less 
remarkable than his father. His achievement was 

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that he managed to dispose of more money and 
goods than any other American of his time, but 
did it an unobtrusive and well-regarded way. 
Some capitalists of the 19th century, particularly 
Andrew" 
Carnegie 
and 
John 
Rockefeller, 
pioneered American philanthropy. Carnegie said 
the same aggressive energy that had made a 
capitalist rich should be used to return his profits