Blank Filling (Directions: Listen to the passages, and supply the missing words while listening. There are 2 passages and 15 blanks, each is 2, totaling 30.) Viruses are most definitely going to get you. And when they do, they will give you anything, from a cold to Ebola. And yet, ______ , viruses have no life of their own. So why do they cause so much trouble? More to the point, why do I catch colds? See that guy with the ______ nose. When he sneezes, ______ droplets will fly twelve feet into the air, infecting up to ______ people. You should have ducked. A cold virus just can’t live without you. With no cells of its own, it needs to ______ your cells and replicate. Here’s something to think about. The virus can only travel around inside a blob of mucus. And that means whenever you catch a sniffle, someone else’s snot has been up your nose. Anyway, your ______ is constantly on the prowl for attackers like these. If it wasn’t, you could ______ fatal pneumonia. So, when it spots a viral invasion, it grabs a ______ and takes it to the nearest lymph node, home of your killer T cells. Here, a T cell first identifies the invader and then deploys an army of tailor-made immune cells to your nose. These provide specialist ______ for the standard immune cells already fighting your cold. Your nose has become a battleground. Meanwhile, to stop infection ______ to your lungs, you’re manufacturing a daily pint of mucus. This snot gives you a ______ . While the virus irritates your nose, so you have to ______ it around 45 times a day. Beating a cold takes you about seven days and you’ll catch about four a year. This is the______ age for the cold virus. It hops on planes with its human ______ , visits new cities and finds hundreds of new homes with every sneeze. As it replicates, it mutates. So by the next year it may be back in a different ______ .