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安徽省马鞍山市2020届高三英语毕业班第二次教学质量监测(二模)试卷
Rwanda is a small country in East Africa with about more than 13 million people. The landlocked country is one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. 1, almost half of the population still live in poverty.
Many people live in 2 where there is no doctor. Medical supplies such as 3, vaccines (疫苗) or even blood are 4 to reach these areas.
Zipline, an American start-up company, now helps people in remote areas to get better 5. A multinational team of engineers has been 6 to build a drone (无人机) that can deliver medicine to where it is most needed.
Rwanda is where their plans have been met with 7 from the government and the country's civil aviation (民用航空) authority.
"Rwanda is the first country to 8 us through the design process of the drone to figure out how to do this," said Keenan Wyrobek, a 9 of Zipline.
If a hospital or a 10 is in an area that is difficult to 11, the Zipline drone can deliver the medical supplies easily and much quicker than via road transport.
Doctors or healthcare workers just need to send a 12 to the base station and the delivery will be dispatched (派遣) via drone quickly and 13. So the vital supplies are dropped off by the drone where the items are 14. Now it only takes 30 minutes from the time the 15 is placed to the delivery.
"I used to see the drones fly and think they must be 16 until the same drone came to me and saved my 17. They are amazing," said Alice Mutimutuje, a mother who fell seriously ill once.
The drones have already successfully completed more than 12,000 18in the last years. In January 2019, the company19 their project in Africa and the 29 million people in the West Africa Ghana will soon benefit from this new20, too.
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