綜合類模擬題及答案:完形填空Singing Alarms
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 ___________(1) all that with directional(定向的) sound alarms capable of guiding you to the exit.
Sound Alert, a company run _________(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. The alarms produce a _________ (4) range of frequencies that enable the brain to_________ (5) where the sound 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 that people say sounds like static (靜電噪音) on the radio," she says. "Its life-saving potential is_________ (7)."
She conducted an experiment in which people were filmed by thermal-imaging (熱效應成像) cameras trying to find their _________ (8) out of a large smoke-filled room. It_________ (9) them nearly four minutes to find the door without a sound alarm,_________ (10) 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 (精確地確定) 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_________ (14) whether people should go up or down stairs. They were_________ (15) with the aid of a large grant from British Nuclear Fuels.
第 51 題 A.change B.cure C.demand D.set
【正確答案】: A
第 52 題 A.to B.along C.by D.with
【正確答案】: C
第 53 題 A.slow B.deaf C.blind D.lame
【正確答案】: C
第 54 題 A.close B.wide C.small D.high
【正確答案】: B
第 55 題 A.form B.affect C.create D.determine
【正確答案】: D
第 56 題 A.watched B.made C.learnt D.heard
【正確答案】: D
第 57 題 A.unlikely B.uncertain C.great D.little
【正確答案】: C
第 58 題 A.life B.way C.method D.skill
【正確答案】: B
第 59 題 A.took B.spent C.used D.had
【正確答案】: A
第 60 題 A.but B.even C.so D.if
【正確答案】: A
第 61 題 A.processes B.produces C.takes D.refuses
【正確答案】: A
第 62 題 A.feature B.quality C.diagram D.source
【正確答案】: D
第 63 題 A.accepted B.based C.kept D.focused
【正確答案】: B
第 64 題 A.describe B.demand C.consider D.indicate
【正確答案】: D
第 65 題 A.developed B.bought C.discovered D.sent
【正確答案】: A