Passengers on Virus-infected Cruise Ship Permitted to Leave Direction: listen to the first part of the news and fill in 1-2 words for each blank. Japanese health officials are permitting hundreds of people to leave a cruise ship sitting in the port of Yokohama. The passengers and crew had been (1)______ from leaving the ship for two weeks as part of efforts to (2)______ the new coronavirus. About 3,700 people were on the Diamond Princess when it arrived at the port on February 3. Officials ordered the ship and everyone on it placed (3)______ quarantine after one passenger was found to have the virus. That person had left the ship when it stopped in Hong Kong. However, the Japanese effort to keep the coronavirus from spreading did not work (4)______. Over 540 people on the Diamond Princess became infected. In fact, they are the largest group of people outside of China to get the virus. Only people who have been tested and found to be (5)______ the virus and who show no signs of infection are being permitted to leave the cruise ship. About 300 Americans left on Monday. All were immediately placed under another 14-day quarantine to prevent spreading the virus. Several governments, including Australia, Britain and Canada, are making plans to (6)______ their citizens from Yokohama. Experts raise questions about ship quarantine The Japanese government has defended the (7)______ of its quarantine. However, three Japanese officials who helped carry out the quarantine tests on the ship became infected. Michael Ryan is a doctor and executive director of the World Health Organization's health emergencies program. He noted, "There are sometimes environments in which disease can spread in a more efficient way." Cruise ships we re known to sometimes (8)______ the spread of disease, he said.