（四）Giving the Gift of Mobility in a City Locked Down by Coronavirus
His days are long, 12 hours crisscrossing(穿梭) the city and 1____________(ferry) local residents to buy groceries, get medicine and go to the hospital. And the roads he travels are mostly empty since the city was sealed off(封锁). In his blue and white car, Zhang Lei is 2_________ rare sight on the streets of Wuhan.
During normal times, Mr. Zhang, 32, is a taxi driver in this Chinese city at the epicenter of the outbreak. But after the local government 3_____________(abrupt) locked down the city late last month, Mr. Zhang became one of the thousands of people 4___________ have volunteered to help ease the transportation woes(困难).
Most of his 5_____________(passenger) are poor, elderly residents who don’t have children or whose family is outside Wuhan and can’t come home because of the quarantine. “It’s heartbreaking,” he says. “There is no one 6____________(take) care of them.”
The free rides 7______________(arrange) by neighborhood committees, which typically serve as a go-between for residents and the local government. In the current crisis, those committees are 8________ charge of allocating community resources and helping coordinate with hospitals.
9____________ other drivers, Mr. Zhang doesn’t get paid. Many Chinese 10______________(praise) these volunteer drivers for donating their time and energy to help out their fellow residents.
1. ferrying 2. a 3. abruptly 4. who 5. passengers 6. to take 7. are arranged
8. in 9. Like 10. have praised
His days are long, 12 hours crisscrossing(穿梭) the city and 1____________(ferry) local residents to buy groceries, get medicine and go to the hospital. And the roads he travels are mostly empty since the city was sealed off(封锁). In his blue and white car, Zhang Lei is 2_________ rare sight on the streets of Wuhan.
During normal times, Mr. Zhang, 32, is a taxi driver in this Chinese city at the epicenter of the outbreak. But after the local government 3_____________(abrupt) locked down the city late last month, Mr. Zhang became one of the thousands of people 4___________ have volunteered to help ease the transportation woes(困难).
Most of his 5_____________(passenger) are poor, elderly residents who don’t have children or whose family is outside Wuhan and can’t come home because of the quarantine. “It’s heartbreaking,” he says. “There is no one 6____________(take) care of them.”
The free rides 7______________(arrange) by neighborhood committees, which typically serve as a go-between for residents and the local government. In the current crisis, those committees are 8________ charge of allocating community resources and helping coordinate with hospitals.
9____________ other drivers, Mr. Zhang doesn’t get paid. Many Chinese 10______________(praise) these volunteer drivers for donating their time and energy to help out their fellow residents.
1. ferrying 2. a 3. abruptly 4. who 5. passengers 6. to take 7. are arranged
8. in 9. Like 10. have praised
