Directions: Read the passage given below carefully and then answer the questions that follow. 

Two additional tugboats sped on Sunday to Egypt's Suez Canal to aid efforts to free a skyscraper-sized container ship _____(1)____ for days across the crucial waterway, even as major shippers increasingly ____(2)_____ their boats out of fear the vessel may take even longer to free.

The massive Ever Given, a Panama-flagged, Japanese-owned ship that carries cargo between Asia and Europe, got stuck Tuesday in a single-lane stretch of the _____(3)_____. In the time since, authorities have been unable to remove the vessel and traffic through the canal — valued at over $9 billion a day — has come to a _____(4)_____, further disrupting a global shipping network already strained by the coronavirus pandemic.

The Dutch-flagged Alp Guard and the Italian-flagged Carlo Magno, called in to help tugboats already there, reached the Red Sea near the city of Suez early Sunday, satellite data from MarineTraffic.com showed. The _____(5)_____will nudge the 400-meter-long (quarter-mile-long) Ever Given as dredgers continue to vacuum up sand from underneath the vessel and mud-caked to its port side, said Bernhard Schulte Ship Management, which manages the Ever Given.