IT CAN BE INFERRED FROM THE PASSAGE THAT STARTING A RESTAURANT IS...

18. It can be inferred from the passage that starting a restaurant is __________.

A. cheap and easy

B. difficult but cheap

C. easy but expensive

D. expensive and difficult

Choose the word that best fits the blank space in the following passage.

A 65-year-old man from Wuhan appears to have 19 the coronavirus to

his 27-year-old son living just outside of Ho Chi Minh City.

The father, along with his wife, had flown from Wuhan to the northern Vietnamese city

of Hanoi on Jan. 13th. Four days later, after 20

southward in Vietnam,

he developed a fever. On Jan. 22th, he arrived at an emergency department in Ho Chi

Minh City.

Tests showed that the man was ill 21 2019-nCoV, and so he was put in

isolation in the hospital and treated with a variety of antimicrobial drugs.

Though he has a number of chronic conditions, the man 22 from

coronavirus. By Jan. 26th his "condition had improved," doctors said. His wife is healthy

and appears to have never become infected.

However, the couple's otherwise healthy son, who met his father upon the latter's arrival

in central Vietnam on Jan. 17th, had developed a cough, 23 and loose

stools, and went to the hospital in Ho Chi Minh City on Jan 22th.

24 the son had no history of travel to a 2019-nCoV-endemic region,

at this point "his father was thought to be the source of infection," doctors said.

Luckily, the son's condition has improved and is now "stable," doctors said.

Complete the sentence by changing the form of the word in capitals.