Singing Alarms Could Save the Blind
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 ___________ all that with directional sound alarms capable of guiding you to the exit.
Sound Alert, a company run _________ the University of Leeds, is installing the alarms in a residential home for _________ people in Sommerset and a resource centre for the blind in Cumbria. The alarms produce a _________ range of frequencies that enable the brain to_________ where the sound is coming from.
Deborah Withington of Sound Alert says that the alarms use most of the frequencies that can be_________ by humans. It is a burst of white noise that people say sounds like static on the radio, she says. Its life-saving potential is_________ .
She conducted an experiment in which people were filmed by thermal-imaging cameras trying to find their _________ out of a large smoke-filled room. It_________ them nearly four minutes to find the door without a sound alarm,_________ only 15 seconds with one.
Withington studies how the brain _________ sounds at the university. She says that the _________ of a wide band of frequencies can be pinpointed more easily than the source of a narrow band. Alarms _________ on the same concept have already been installed on emergency vehicles.
The alarms will also include rising or falling frequencies to_________ whether people should go up or down stairs. They were_________ with the aid of a large grant from British Nuclear Fuels.
第 51 题
A.change B.cure
C.demand D.set
【正确答案】:A
第 52 题
A.to B.along
C.by D.with
【正确答案】:C
第 53 题
A.slow B.deaf
C.blind D.lame
【正确答案】:C
第 54 题
A.close B.wide
C.small D.high
【正确答案】:B
第 55 题
A.form B.affect
C.create D.determine
【正确答案】:D
第 56 题
A.watched B.made
C.learnt D.heard
【正确答案】:D
第 57 题
A.unlikely B.uncertain
C.great D.little
【正确答案】:C
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