32.A) The first infected victim.
　　B) A coastal village in Africa.
　　C) The doctor who first identified it.
　　D) A river running through the Congo.
　　33.A) They exhibit similar symptoms.
　　B) They can be treated with the same drug.
　　C) They have almost the same mortality rate.
　　D) They have both disappeared for good.
　　34.A) By inhaling air polluted with the virus.
　　B) By contacting contaminated body fluids.
　　C) By drinking water from the Congo River.
　　D) By eating food grown in Sedan and Zaire.
　　35. A) More strains will evolve from the Ebola virus.
　　B) Scientists will eventually find cures for Ebola.
　　C) Another Ebola epidemic may erupt sooner or later.
　　D) Dose infected, one will become immune to Ebola.
　　Section C
　　Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks you can write the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

　　注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
　　The ideal companion machine would not only look, feel, and sound friendly but would also be programmed to behave in an agreeable manner. Those (36)     that make interaction with other people enjoyable would be simulated as closely as possible, and the machine would appear to (37)     stimulating and easygoing. Its informal conversation style would make interaction comfortable, and yet the machine would remain slightly (38)     and therefore interesting. In its first (39)     it might be somewhat honest and unsmiling that it came to know the user it would progress to a mere (40)      and intimate style. The machine would not be a passive (41)     but would add its own suggestions, information, and opinions; it would sometimes take the (42)    in developing or changing the topic and would have a (43)     of its own.
　　The machine would convey presence. We have all seen how a computer’s use of personal names (44)                                                              . Such features are wholly written into the software (45)                              .
　　Friendships are not made in a day, and the computer would be more acceptable as a friend (46)                                                        . At an appropriate time I might also express the kind of affection that simulates attachment and intimacy.

　　Part Ⅳ       Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)   (25 minutes)
　　Section A
　　Direction: In this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete stamens. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words. Please write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.
　　Question 47 to 51 are based on the following passage
　　Highly proficient musicianship is hard won. Although it’s often assumed musical ability us inherited, there’s abundant evidence that this isn’t the case. While it seems that at birth virtually everyone has perfect pitch, the reasons that one child is better than another are motivation and practice.
　　Highly musical children were sung to more as infants and more encouraged to join in song games as kids than less musical ones, long before any musical ability could have been evident. Studies of classical musicians prove that the best ones practiced considerably more from childhood onwards than ordinary orchestral players, and this is because their parents were at them to put in the hours from a very young age.
　　The same was true of children selected for entry to specialist music schools, compared with those who were rejected. The chosen children had parents who had very actively supervised music lessons and daily practice from young ages, giving up substantial periods of leisure time to take the children to lessons and concerts.
　　The singer Michael Jackson’s story, although unusually brutal and extreme, is illumination when considering musical prodigy(天才). Accounts suggest that he was subjected to cruel beatings and emotional torture ,and that he was humiliated (羞辱) constantly by his father, What sets Jackson’s family apart is that his father used his reign of terror to train his children as musicians and dancers.
　　On top of his extra ability Michael also had more drive. This may have been the result of being the closest of his brothers and sisters to his mother. “He seemed different to me from the other children — special,” Michael’s mother said of him. She may not have realized that treating her son as special may have been part of the reason be became like that.

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