3 . Many nursing homes all over the world are locked down to protect their residents from the COVID-19. Group-f is a ______ company in Belgium, whose employees wash the outsides of tall buildings, using platforms that are lifted by cranes (起重机). When the COVID-19 hit Belgium, Group-f’s business ______ . The cranes sat ______ . But one day, company manager Bosch saw a man standing on the ______ and shouting up to his mother who was looking down ______ from her window on the third floor of a nursing home. This gave Bosch a perfect______ .
Bosch realized he could put the cranes to good use. Ever since, he has been ______ them to nursing homes. There, a family can ______ a platform that a crane operator will lift up to the window of a loved one.
Eve Putseys came to see her 88-year-old aunt, who lives in La Cambre, a nursing home. Before she______ the platform, Putseys didn’t know what to expect. “It’s been seven long weeks that I haven’t been ______ to see her,” she said. But when Putseys returned to the ground, she was ______. “I finally got to see her. She looked very happy to see me,” she said.
Officials at La Cambre helped organize the crane-operated ______ . “It’s been hard work but quite ______ ,” director Thibaut Chevrier says. Bosch ______ that operating the machines costs his company money. But he has no ______ . “It’s a great honor to help people,” he says.
1. A.travel | B.design | C.building | D.cleaning |
2. A.slowed down | B.broke out | C.fell back | D.knocked down |
3. A.unpacked | B.unnoticed | C.unused | D.untouched |
4. A.platform | B.ground | C.window | D.crane |
5. A.secretly | B.proudly | C.cautiously | D.tearfully |
6. A.chance | B.idea | C.dream | D.memory |
7. A.hiring | B.sending | C.employing | D.accompanying |
8. A.stand on | B.set up | C.return to | D.head for |
9. A.got | B.selected | C.landed | D.exchanged |
10. A.determined | B.willing | C.amused | D.able |
11. A.smiling | B.moving | C.worrying | D.waiting |
12. A.voyage | B.visit | C.tour | D.adventure |
13. A.unnecessary | B.natural | C.practical | D.skeptical |
14. A.anticipates | B.responds | C.acknowledges | D.realizes |
15. A.anxieties | B.promises | C.excuses | D.regrets |