2015年综合类职称英语考试完形填空专练(5)

　　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