Reading: Gap Fill - 2022 őszi

DRONE DELIVERS BOOKS TO KIDS Kids in the Montgomery County school district had a special way of getting books to read when the pandemic started: the books were (0) _____. A drone is a small remote-controlled aircraft, like a toy-sized plane or helicopter. Kelly Passek is a librarian at a local school. When schools closed because of the Covid-19 pandemic, she wanted to make sure students in her school district would still (20) _____. A company called Wing Aviation uses drones to (21) _____ from restaurants and stores in Ms Passek's town. She had used the drone service to have things delivered to her own home, and she thought it could (22) _____. The people at Wing agreed and the company began making deliveries. Students who (23) _____ could fill out a Google form to request a specific book, or ask Ms Passek to choose one for them. Ms Passek received the requests, then got the books from the library, (24) _____, and took them to Wing's shipping centre. Wing (25) _____, which flew to the delivery location, lowered the book on a cable, and released it when it was close to the ground. The first book sent out this way – and maybe the first library book ever to be delivered by drone – was All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque. It was (26) _____ in the district. The drones have a wingspan of about one metre, and weigh about 4.5 kilograms. They can carry packages that weigh up to 1.3 kilograms, so students were (27) _____. Students have now (28) _____, but many are hoping to use the drone service in the future.