阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。With Chinese hit by quarantine(隔离期)and travel restrictions as well as just cautious about going out to the shops due to the coronavirus epidemic(流行病),companies in China are experimenting with new tricks to make sales.
Oil giant Sinopec—keen to get customers back in their cars and help farmers due to roadblocks—【小题1】(launch) a new project last month called "zero touch" vegetable sales at its 6,000 gas stations in 147 Chinese cities.【小题2】(consume) place and pay for orders on the app. When they drive up gas station, employees put the vegetables into their car trunk,【小题3】(avoid) any need for human-to-human contact.
"The coronavirus outbreak has made 【小题4】difficult for people to shop as before," said Li Hong, vice president of Sinopec's convenience store sales division. "Travel demand has been falling, but demand for food is pretty rigid."
Mengniu Dairy, China's dairy producer, is racing to add more vending machines 【小题5】the 10.000 it currently has, saying the epidemic has driven unexpectedly strong demand for the sales channel. Its system allows customers to order products like milk and yoghurt online 【小题6】can then be picked up from their local vending machine. "The virus outbreak has decreased consumption for dairy products as people 【小题7】(forbid) to go to the supermarket," said Meng Fanjie, head of the company's Communist Party committee. Luckin Coffee, a 【小题8】(compete) rival to Starbucks, now also offers the sanitizer(消毒)products (e.g. hand soap) besides coffee. Liu Xingliang, 【小题9】independent retail analyst, said, however, that Luckin's strategy would have only a modest impact. "At best some users will place an order when they buy coffee, but nobody is 【小题10】(deliberate) choosing the Luckin app just to buy sanitizer."