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Summary:In this paper, finite element discretizations of the degenerated operator -&omega;<sup>2</sup>(y) u<sub>xx</sub>-&omega;<sup>2</sup>(x)u<sub>yy</sub>=g in the unit square are investigated, where the weight function satisfies &omega;(&xi;)=&xi;<sup>&alpha;</sup> with &alpha; &ge; 0. We propose two multi-level methods in order to solve the resulting system of linear algebraic equations. The first method is a multi-grid algorithm with line-smoother. A proof of the smoothing property is given. The second method is a BPX-like preconditioner which we call MTS-BPX preconditioner. We show that the upper eigenvalue bound of the MTS-BPX preconditioned system matrix grows proportionally to the level number.