“By under control I mean... the numbers of new cases each week diminishes compared with the previous week to the point where there is no new transmission.”

　　The Ebola virus is spread by direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person or animal.

　　Meanwhile, New York’s JFK airport began screening passengers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea for the Ebola virus on Saturday, in an attempt to stop the outbreak. Passengers from those countries will have their temperatures taken and have to answer a series of questions.

　　Checks at O’Hare in Chicago, Newark, Washington’s Dulles and Atlanta’s airport will begin in the coming days. The screening system is being introduced after the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the US died in Texas on Wednesday.

　　25. The number of the countries which have been reported on death cases of Ebola so far

　　mainly is_____.

　　A. 3.

　　B. 4.

　　C. 7.

　　D. 8.

　　26. According to the UN special envoy, how long will it take to bring Ebola under control? _____.

　　A. a few days from now.

　　B. six weeks.

　　C. about three months.

　　D. the coming week.

　　27. What does the underlined word “diminishes” mean in the fifth paragraph? _____.

　　A. increases

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