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Listening device provides landslide early warning
A device that provides early warning of landslide by monitoring vibrations in soil is being tested by UK researchers.The device could save thousands of lives each year by warning when an area should be evacuated,the scientists say.Such natural disasters are common in countries that experience sudden,heavy rainfall,and Can also be triggered by earthquakes and even water erosion.
Landslides start when a few particles of soil or rock Within a slope start to move,but the early stages can be hard
to spot.Following this initial movement.Slopes can become unstable in a matter of hours of minutes,says Nell Dixon at Loughborough University,UK.He says a warning system that monitors this movement might be enough to evacu。 ate a block of flats or clear a road,and save lives.
The most common way to monitor a slope for signs of an imminent landslide is to watch for changes in its shape.Surveyors can do this by monitoring a site directly,or sensors sunk into boreholes or fixed above ground can be sued to monitor the shape of a slope.Slopes can,however,change shape without triggering a landslide,so either method is prone to causing false alarms.Now Nixons team has developed a device that listens for the vibrations caused when partieles begin moving within a slope.
The device takes the form of steel pipe dropped into a slope.The borehole is filled in with gravel around the pipe to help transmit highfrequency vibrations generated by particles within the slope.These vibrations pasg up the tube and are picked up by a sensor on the surface.Software analyses the vibration signal to determine whether a landslide may be imminent.
The device is cmTently being tested in a 6一metretall artificial clay embankment in Newcastle.UK.Early results suggest it should provide tewer false positives than existing systems.Once it has been carefully and thoroughly tested,the device could be used to create a complete earlywarning system for dangerous slopes.
Locations with a significant risk of landslides could definitely benefit from a machine like this,says Adam Poulter,an expert at the British Red Cross.As long as it doesnt cost too much.But,Pouher adds that an earlywarn-
ing system may not be enough on it own.You need to have the human communication,he says.Making systems that
get warnings to those who need them can be difficult.
1.What doesSuch natural disastersin the first paragraph refer to?
A.Sudden,heavy rainfall.
B.Earthquakes
C.Water erosion D.Landslides
2.Which of the following statements is true of landslides?
A.The initial movement is hard to spot
B.They start with a movement of a few particles of soil or rock
C.They can be destructive in a matter of hours or minutes
D.All ofthe above
3.Why do researchers develop a new device to monitor signs of landslides?
A.because the new device can measure the site directly
B.because the new device can be sunk into boreholes or fixed above ground
C.because the common methods can cause false alarms
D.because出e common methods are useless
4。Which of the following statements is NOT true of the device,according to Paragraph 47
A.it is filled in with gravel
B.it consists of a steel pipe.
C.It is dropped into a borehole filled with gravel
D.it is connected to a sensor on the surface
5.According to the context,what does the wordpositivesin the fifth paragraph mean?
A.positive electric charges
B.evidences
C.warnings
D.predictions
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