THE AUTHOR MENTIONS SARS IN ORDER TO ____. A. GIVE AN EXAMPLE...

54. 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.

What I love about my job is the variety. I get enquiries (việc điều tra) from people all over

the world asking me how they should go about setting up their own website. I’ve been asked about

so many subjects - anything from someone wanting to teach people how to throw boomerangs to

another people selling paper flowers which they make at home in their spare time.

Obviously with all the thousands of websites available at the click of a button, you want to

create an impression with your website so that it becomes a must-see destination. Not everyone is

prepared, however, for the way in which a website can become so popular that it actually has to be

closed down.

When people first set up their websites they probably pay their web advertiser a monthly fee

based on the number of hits (visitors) or page impressions their site receives. If they can pay their

monthly fee without it costing them too much, that is the best that most people hope for. One guy,

Pete Bennett, whom I helped, wanted to set up a one-stop shop to provide decent images of the

world’s flags. He’d been fascinated by flags since his boyhood and had no idea that thousands of

other people share his passion. Anyway, in one month his web page had over 1.5 million hits. As a

result his internet provider trebled (gấp 3) the fee that he was being charged. He wasn’t a rich

person and he couldn’t afford to spend that amount of money on a hobby without any benefit to

him, so he decided to carry advertising on his site. He found a company which specializes in

smaller sites and adverts were added to the pages on his website. So, although he doesn’t make a

huge profit, at least his hobby provides him with a small income.

If you have specialist skills or expertise, it can pay you to sell the products that people want.

I helped one woman design a page to advertise the fact that she tells fortunes, based on the

information that her clients supply her with. If you want her to tell your fortune, you fill in a

questionnaire online -- your age, date of birth, hobbies, interests and so on and for a small fee she e-

mails you back your fortune. You can print it out and it looks really good, decorated with moons

and stars, your zodiac (hoàng đạo) sign and your birthstone. I tried it myself and although I’m not

sure I believe it, my future according to her is positive and exciting. I also found out that for

someone born in August, like me, the birthstone is a peridot (đá/ngọc peridot), a pale green stone

which I’d never even heard of!

I also get a fair number of complaints from people e-mailing me to say that they can’t access

the website. When they click on the site a message appears on their screen saying ‘An error has

occurred in the script (bản chính) on this page’. This usually happens when someone has tried to

achieve fancy effects on their website by using programming techniques based on a scripting

language. This means that unless they really know what they are doing, whoever designed the site

has probably made a mistake in their programming. This is where people like me come in. Most

computer instruction guides make things appear quite straightforward, but unless you’re very

skilled, you’re likely to run into problems. It’s generally worth getting a professional to help you set

up your site in the first place -- otherwise people like me would be out of work. And let’s face it,

this is big business.