2020-2021学年英语周报九年级新目标第20期答案及试题（第

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Giving the Gift of Mobility in a City Locked Down by Coronavirus

His days are long, 12 hours crisscrossing 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. In his blue and white car, Zhang Lei is a rare sight on the streets of Wuhan.

During normal times, Mr. Zhang, 32, is  2   taxi driver in this Chinese city at the epicenter of the outbreak.   3   after the local government abruptly locked down the city late last month, Mr. Zhang became one of the thousands of people who  4  (volunteer) to help ease the transportation woes.

Most of his passengers are poor,   5  (elder) residents who don’t have children or   6   family is outside Wuhan and can’t come home because of the quarantine. “It’s heartbreaking,” he says. “There is no one to take care of them.”

The free rides   7  (arrange) by the neighborhood committees, which typically serve as a go-between for residents and the local government. In the current crisis, those  8    (committee) are in charge of allocating community resources and helping coordinate with hospitals.

Like other drivers, Mr. Zhang doesn’t get    9    (pay). Many Chinese have praised these volunteer drivers for donating their time and   10  (energetic) to help out their fellow residents.

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