Deborah Withington of Sound Alert
If you cannot see, you may not be able to find your way out of a burning building-and that could be fatal. A company in Leeds could change all that__1__ directional sound alarms capable of guiding you to the exit.
Sound Alert, a company__2__ the University of Leeds, is installing the alarms in a residential home for__3__ people in Sommerset and a resource centre for the blind in Cumbria.__4__produce a wide range of frequencies that enable the brain to determine the __5__ is coming from.
Deborah Withington of Sound Alert says that the alarms use most of the frequencies that can be __6__ by humans. It is a burst of white noise__7__ people say sounds like static on the radio, he says. Its life-saving potential is great
She conducted an experiment in which people were filmed by thermal-imaging cameras trying to find their way out of a large__8__ room. It__9__ them nearly our minutes to find the door__10__ a sound alarm, but only 15 seconds with one.
Withington studies how the brain__11__ sounds at the university. She says that the __12__ of a wide band of frequencies can be pinpointed more easily than the source of a narrow band. Alarms__13__ on the same concept have already been installed on emergency vehicles.
The alarms will also include rising or falling frequencies to indicate whether people should go up__14__ down stairs. They were__15__ with the aid of a large grant from British Nuclear Fuels.
1. A) without B)with C)having D)selling
2. A) run by B)changed by C) decorated by D)criticized by
3. A) slow B)deaf C)blind D)lame
4. A) Alarms B) Alarm C) The alarm D) The alarms
5. A) noise B) sound C) music D) bell
6. A) watched B) produced C) learnt D) heard
7. A) where B) what C) that D) how
8. A) smoked B) smoke-filled C) filled with smoke D) smoke-filling
9. A) has taken B) takes C) took D) will take
10. A) on B) near C) without D) from
11. A) processes B) produces C) possesses D) proceeds
12. A) feature B) quality C)diagram D) source
13. A) basis on B) base on C) basing on D) based on
14. A) or B) and C) but D) otherwise
15. A) developed B) determined C) discovered D) delivered
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2017届高考英语二轮热点复习训练:语法单选题系列32
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选短文改错常考题型(三)
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选短文改错常考题型(二)
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选单元练习人教版必修4《Unit 4 Body language》
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选短文改错常考题型(五)
2017届高考英语二轮复习热点限时训练:完形填空系列1
2017届高考英语二轮复习热点限时训练:短文改错系列2
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选单元练习人教版必修4《Unit 5 Theme parks》
2017届高考英语二轮复习热点限时训练:完形填空系列2
2017届高考英语二轮复习热点限时训练:短文改错系列3
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选单元练习人教版选修7《Unit 5 Travelling abroad》
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选完形填空常考题型(三)
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选单元练习人教版必修5《Unit 1 Great scientists》
2017届高考英语二轮热点复习训练:语法单选题系列30
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选单元练习人教版选修6《Unit 2 Poems》
2017届高考英语二轮复习热点限时训练:短文改错系列11
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选单元练习人教版选修8《Unit 2 Cloning》
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选单元练习人教版选修8《Unit 1 A land of diversity》
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2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选单元练习人教版选修6《Unit 1 Art》
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选短文改错常考题型(四)
2017届高考英语二轮热点复习训练:语法单选题系列31
2017届高考英语二轮复习热点限时训练:短文改错系列8
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选单元练习人教版必修4《Unit 1 Women of achievement》
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选单元练习人教版选修6《Unit 4 Global warming》
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2017届高考英语二轮复习热点限时训练:短文改错系列5
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选完形填空常考题型(二)
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选单元练习人教版必修5《Unit 4 Making the news》
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选单元练习人教版必修2《Unit 5 Music》