The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, the world's     1    (long) cross-sea bridge, enters the history of human engineering and connection as a point of pride upon     2    （it) opening to traffic at 9 am on Oct.24, 2018.

One day after the opening was announced at a ceremony     3    (hold) in Zhuhai , the bridge's ports in three different administrative regions started serving travelers around-the-clock , opening 24 hours a day, seven days a week.    4    (ensure) faster boundary crossings for passengers, the Macao and Zhuhai ports jointly use a one-off immigration clearance model,    5    allows travelers to queue up only once to finish both exit and entry procedures of the two cities in about 30    6    (second).

Apart    7       private cars, taxis and goods vehicles, two types of public transportation -shuttle bus（班车）and cross-boundary coach --can also run on the HZMB.     8    frequency of shuttle buses is about 5-10minutes during peak hours. Booking tickets for the shuttle bus online in advance     9    （be）available since 9 am on Tuesday. With the bridge now in service, the traveling time between Zhuhai and Hong Kong International Airport will    10    ( shorten) from four hours to 45 minutes, and the time between Zhuhai and Hong Kong’s Container Terminals will be cut from 3. 5 hours to 75 minutes.