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Question 38: According to the passage, all of the following are true of the 1918 flu pandemic
EXCEPT that _____.
A. it involved a new kind of flu virus
C. it was the last pandemic in history
B. it killed over 25 million people
D. it took a little over a week to kill its victims
Question 39: The word “it” in the passage refers to _____.
A. disease B. flu virus C. pandemics
D. bodies
Question 40: Which of the following is mentioned as a common feature of all pandemic diseases?
A. They spread from people to people very quickly
B. It kill many people very quickly
C. They do not kill people very quickly
D. They kill all the victims
Question 41: According to paragraph 3, why hasn’t Marburg virus become a pandemic?
A. It is not a deadly disease
B. It does not spread from person to person easily
C. Doctors have prevented it from becoming a pandemic
D. It kills people too quickly
Question 42: The author mentions SARS in order to _____.
A. give an example of a highly dangerous disease
B. suggest that SARS will never become a pandemic
C. give an example of the successful prevention of a pandemic
D. suggest that there may be a new pandemic soon
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to
indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50.
Music can bring us to tears or to our feet, drive us into battle or lull us to sleep. Music is
indeed remarkable in its power over all humankind, and perhaps for that very reason, no human
culture on earth has ever lived without it. From discoveries made in France and Slovenia even
Neanderthal man, as long as 53,000 years ago, had developed surprisingly sophisticated, sweet-
sounding flutes carved from animal bones. It is perhaps then, no accident that music should strike
such a chord with the limbic system – an ancient part of our brain, evolutionarily speaking,
and one that we share with much of the animal kingdom. Some researchers even propose that music
came into this world long before the human race ever did. For example, the fact that whale and
human music have so much in common even though our evolutionary paths have not intersected for
nearly 60 million years suggests that music may predate humans. They assert that rather than being
the inventors of music, we are latecomers to the musical scene.
Humpback whale composers employ many of the same tricks that human songwriters do. In
addition to using similar rhythms, humpbacks keep musical phrases to a few seconds, creating themes
out of several phrases before singing the next one. Whale songs in general are no longer than
symphony movements, perhaps because they have a similar attention span. Even though they can
sing over a range of seven octaves, the whales typically sing in key, spreading adjacent notes no
farther apart than a scale. They mix percussive and pure tones in pretty much the same ratios as
human composers – and follow their ABA form, in which a theme is presented, elaborated on and
then revisited in a slightly modified form. Perhaps most amazing, humpback whale songs include
repeating refrains that rhyme. It has been suggested that whales might use rhymes for exactly the
same reasons that we do: as devices to help them remember. Whale songs can also be
rather catchy. When a few humpbacks from the Indian Ocean strayed into the Pacific, some of the
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