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 change all that ___1__ directional sound alarms capable if 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 where 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’s a burst of white noise __7___ people say sounds like static on the radio,”she 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 four 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____ 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
警報器救盲人
如果看不見，那你可能會因找不到路而逃不出一幢失火樓房，那將是致命的。英國利茲市的一家公司發(fā)明的一種可指方向的警報器可能會把你引向出口。
聲音警報是一家由利茲大學設(shè)立的公司。該公司現(xiàn)在正在為位于薩莫塞特的一家盲人收容所和位于卡姆布雷亞的一家盲人資源中心安裝此種裝置。這種警報器發(fā)出的頻率范圍廣，使人腦可以判斷出聲音的來源。
該公司的戴博拉•威星頓稱此種警報器使用人類可以聽到的大部分音頻。她說：“它們是一種突出的頻譜連續(xù)而均勻的噪音。人們感覺它們聽上去就像是收音機發(fā)出的靜電噪聲，其在救人方面潛力巨大?！?BR> 她進行了一次試驗。她讓人們在一所充滿濃煙的大屋子里設(shè)法找到出路，同時她用熱效應(yīng)成像攝像機進行拍攝。在沒有警報器時，這些人用了近4分鐘才找到門，而在警報器的指引下，只用了15秒。
她在大學里對人腦如何處理聲音進行研究，并提出與波段窄的頻率相比，人們更容易發(fā)現(xiàn)波段寬的音響源。基于此理論的警報器已被應(yīng)用于急救車上。
這種警報器也容納了音頻的升降，以指示人們上、下樓。這種設(shè)備是得到英國核燃料組織的大筆資助才開發(fā)成功的。[
解析標題：
Singing(唱歌的) Alarms(警報器)Could(能夠) Save(挽救) the Blind(定冠詞 + 形容詞，表示一類人，盲人)
文章精讀：
1>. If you cannot see(看見), you may not be able to find(找到) your way out of(出來) a burning(正在著火的) building(大樓) ---- and that could be(可能是) fatal(致命的).
2>. A company in Leeds(英國利茲市) could change(改變) all(所有的) that(代詞，指前一句所表達的內(nèi)容) ___1__ directional(定向的) sound alarms(聲音警報器) capable of(有能力的) guiding(引導(dǎo)) you to the exit(出口).
A. without B. with C. having D. selling
分析：通過閱讀我們可以看出，空格后是一種裝置，用它來改變當火災(zāi)發(fā)生時找不到出口的危險境況，所以要表達“用。。。。裝置”意思的只能用介詞with，帶著、帶有。本句的意思是：利茲市一家公司發(fā)明的一種可指方向的聲音警報器能引導(dǎo)你到出口。
3>. Sound Alert(聲音警報器), a company(逗號前面是公司名字) ___2___ the University of Leeds(利茲大學), is installing (安裝)the alarms in a residential home(收容所) for ___3__ people in Sommerset and a resource centre(資源中心) for the blind (盲人)in Cumbria.
A. run(經(jīng)營) by B. changed(改變) by
C. decorated(裝修) by D. criticized(批評) by
分析：我們知道Sound Alert是一家公司的名字，從語意上判斷應(yīng)該是由某人經(jīng)營，因此選擇答案A較為合適。
3. A. slow慢的 B. deaf聾的 C. blind瞎的 D. lame瘸的
分析：這篇文章的核心內(nèi)容就是有關(guān)盲人警報器的，而且后半句也提到a resource centre(資源中心) for the blind (盲人)，所以順理成章地得出結(jié)論應(yīng)是C。
4>. ___4___ produce(產(chǎn)生) a wide range(廣的范圍) of frequencies(頻率) that (引導(dǎo)定語從句)enable(使。。。能夠) the brain to determine(決定) where the ___5__ is coming from.
4. A. Alarms B. Alarm C. The alarm D. The alarms
分析：我們知道該空的名詞應(yīng)出現(xiàn)在前文，上一句就提到Sound Alert, is installing the alarms in a residential home。。。，所以這里所要填的詞也應(yīng)該是the alarms,選擇答案D。
5. A. noise噪音 B. sound聲音 C. music音樂 D. bell鈴
分析：句子前半句是說a wide range(廣的范圍) of frequencies(頻率)，所以發(fā)出的應(yīng)是sound,因此答案選B。
5>. Deborah Withington(人名) of Sound Alert says that the alarms use(使用) most of(大多數(shù)的) the frequencies that can be ___6___by humans(人).
6. A. watched觀看 B. produced 產(chǎn)生 C. learnt學習 D. heard聽到
分析：文章一直在討論警報器、聲音，因此很容易推斷應(yīng)該是被人聽到。
6>. “It’s a burst(突然發(fā)出的) of white noise(連續(xù)而均勻的聲音) __7___ people say sounds like static(靜電噪音) on the radio(收音機里), ”she says. “Its life-saving(挽救生命的) potential(潛力) is great.”
7. A. where B. what C. that D. how
分析：A、B、D都不能構(gòu)成語意上的連貫，而只有C，構(gòu)成一個句型，強調(diào)句，it’s ….that ….這句話強調(diào)的是主語。去掉it’s…that，剩下的完整句子就是：A burst of white noise，people say(插入語)，sounds like static on the radio。
7>. She conducted(進行) an experiment(實驗) in which(引導(dǎo)定語從句，在這項實驗中) people were filmed(被拍攝) by thermal―imaging(熱效應(yīng)成像) cameras(照相機) trying to find their way out of (找到從。。。出去的路)a large __8___ room.
A. smoked煙熏的 B. smoke-filled
C. filled with smoke D. smoke-filling使。。。煙火彌漫的
分析：從上下文可以看出，是一個定語修飾room，表示“充滿了煙火的房間”
答案A，D意思不吻合，C作為定語，位置不應(yīng)放在room前，應(yīng)放后面。只有B才符合句子。
8>. It __9___ them nearly(幾乎) four minutes to find the door __10____ a sound alarm, but only 15 seconds(秒) with one.
9. A. has taken B. takes C. took D. will take
分析：顯然，這個空是考察常用句型：it takes / took sb some time to do sth.關(guān)鍵是確定動詞時態(tài)，從前面看都是過去時態(tài)，所以選擇C。
10. A. on B. near C. without D. from
分析：逗號后面的one應(yīng)該是指a sound alarm，從連詞but可以推斷，前后應(yīng)是意思相反，后面已有了with, 那么前句應(yīng)是without, 所以選擇C。讀讀意思很通順。
9>. Withington studies how(如何) the brain(大腦) __11____sounds at the university.
A processes(處理) B. produces(產(chǎn)生)
C. possesses(擁有) D. proceeds(前進)
分析：句子主語是the brain應(yīng)和“處理”構(gòu)成主謂關(guān)系，而其它動詞均不合適，所以選擇A。
10>. She says that the __12___ of a wide band of frequencies(波段寬的頻率) can be pinpointed(精確地確定) more easily than the source of a narrow band(窄波段).
12. A. feature特征 B. quality質(zhì)量、素質(zhì)
C. diagram圖解 D. source來源
分析：解題關(guān)鍵是要看出句子中主要結(jié)構(gòu)是more…than, 后面出現(xiàn)核心詞the source, 所以可以推斷得出結(jié)論，前面的名詞也應(yīng)是source.這樣符合比較級用法，用來進行比較的事物必須具有可比性。所以選D。
11>. Alarms ___13____ the same concept(觀念、概念) have already been installed(已經(jīng)被安裝) on emergency vehicles(急救車).
A. basis on B. base on C. basing on D. based on
分析：Alarms是主語，have already been installed是謂語，所以要填的動詞應(yīng)該是分詞形式，做定語，所以四個答案只有D可能, be based on以。。。為基礎(chǔ)。
12>. The alarms will also include(包括) rising (上升)or falling(下降) frequencies to indicate(指示) whether (是否)people should go up __14___ down stairs.
A. or B. and C. but D. otherwise
分析：根據(jù)前半句的rising or falling frequencies，可以看出這句話也應(yīng)該填連接詞or, 表示或者。
13>. They were __15__ with the aid of a large grant from British Nuclear Fuels.
A. developed B. determined C. discovered D. delivered
分析：主語they 代指the alarms, 后半句是說這種設(shè)備得到大筆資助。根據(jù)上下文，資助的目的是為了開發(fā)，所以應(yīng)該選A。
14.A 根據(jù)上半句中的rising or falling frequencies,這里應(yīng)填入or, 與上半句表達的意思相一致。音頻升高表示上樓，音頻降低表示下樓。
15. A. 首先確定主語They指的是第一句中的主語The alarms,后半句說這種設(shè)備得到大筆資助，根據(jù)上文內(nèi)容，我們知道資助的目的是開發(fā)這種alarms,所以應(yīng)該選擇developed。
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 if 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 where 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’s a burst of white noise __7___ people say sounds like static on the radio,”she 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 four 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____ 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
警報器救盲人
如果看不見，那你可能會因找不到路而逃不出一幢失火樓房，那將是致命的。英國利茲市的一家公司發(fā)明的一種可指方向的警報器可能會把你引向出口。
聲音警報是一家由利茲大學設(shè)立的公司。該公司現(xiàn)在正在為位于薩莫塞特的一家盲人收容所和位于卡姆布雷亞的一家盲人資源中心安裝此種裝置。這種警報器發(fā)出的頻率范圍廣，使人腦可以判斷出聲音的來源。
該公司的戴博拉•威星頓稱此種警報器使用人類可以聽到的大部分音頻。她說：“它們是一種突出的頻譜連續(xù)而均勻的噪音。人們感覺它們聽上去就像是收音機發(fā)出的靜電噪聲，其在救人方面潛力巨大?！?BR> 她進行了一次試驗。她讓人們在一所充滿濃煙的大屋子里設(shè)法找到出路，同時她用熱效應(yīng)成像攝像機進行拍攝。在沒有警報器時，這些人用了近4分鐘才找到門，而在警報器的指引下，只用了15秒。
她在大學里對人腦如何處理聲音進行研究，并提出與波段窄的頻率相比，人們更容易發(fā)現(xiàn)波段寬的音響源。基于此理論的警報器已被應(yīng)用于急救車上。
這種警報器也容納了音頻的升降，以指示人們上、下樓。這種設(shè)備是得到英國核燃料組織的大筆資助才開發(fā)成功的。[
解析標題：
Singing(唱歌的) Alarms(警報器)Could(能夠) Save(挽救) the Blind(定冠詞 + 形容詞，表示一類人，盲人)
文章精讀：
1>. If you cannot see(看見), you may not be able to find(找到) your way out of(出來) a burning(正在著火的) building(大樓) ---- and that could be(可能是) fatal(致命的).
2>. A company in Leeds(英國利茲市) could change(改變) all(所有的) that(代詞，指前一句所表達的內(nèi)容) ___1__ directional(定向的) sound alarms(聲音警報器) capable of(有能力的) guiding(引導(dǎo)) you to the exit(出口).
A. without B. with C. having D. selling
分析：通過閱讀我們可以看出，空格后是一種裝置，用它來改變當火災(zāi)發(fā)生時找不到出口的危險境況，所以要表達“用。。。。裝置”意思的只能用介詞with，帶著、帶有。本句的意思是：利茲市一家公司發(fā)明的一種可指方向的聲音警報器能引導(dǎo)你到出口。
3>. Sound Alert(聲音警報器), a company(逗號前面是公司名字) ___2___ the University of Leeds(利茲大學), is installing (安裝)the alarms in a residential home(收容所) for ___3__ people in Sommerset and a resource centre(資源中心) for the blind (盲人)in Cumbria.
A. run(經(jīng)營) by B. changed(改變) by
C. decorated(裝修) by D. criticized(批評) by
分析：我們知道Sound Alert是一家公司的名字，從語意上判斷應(yīng)該是由某人經(jīng)營，因此選擇答案A較為合適。
3. A. slow慢的 B. deaf聾的 C. blind瞎的 D. lame瘸的
分析：這篇文章的核心內(nèi)容就是有關(guān)盲人警報器的，而且后半句也提到a resource centre(資源中心) for the blind (盲人)，所以順理成章地得出結(jié)論應(yīng)是C。
4>. ___4___ produce(產(chǎn)生) a wide range(廣的范圍) of frequencies(頻率) that (引導(dǎo)定語從句)enable(使。。。能夠) the brain to determine(決定) where the ___5__ is coming from.
4. A. Alarms B. Alarm C. The alarm D. The alarms
分析：我們知道該空的名詞應(yīng)出現(xiàn)在前文，上一句就提到Sound Alert, is installing the alarms in a residential home。。。，所以這里所要填的詞也應(yīng)該是the alarms,選擇答案D。
5. A. noise噪音 B. sound聲音 C. music音樂 D. bell鈴
分析：句子前半句是說a wide range(廣的范圍) of frequencies(頻率)，所以發(fā)出的應(yīng)是sound,因此答案選B。
5>. Deborah Withington(人名) of Sound Alert says that the alarms use(使用) most of(大多數(shù)的) the frequencies that can be ___6___by humans(人).
6. A. watched觀看 B. produced 產(chǎn)生 C. learnt學習 D. heard聽到
分析：文章一直在討論警報器、聲音，因此很容易推斷應(yīng)該是被人聽到。
6>. “It’s a burst(突然發(fā)出的) of white noise(連續(xù)而均勻的聲音) __7___ people say sounds like static(靜電噪音) on the radio(收音機里), ”she says. “Its life-saving(挽救生命的) potential(潛力) is great.”
7. A. where B. what C. that D. how
分析：A、B、D都不能構(gòu)成語意上的連貫，而只有C，構(gòu)成一個句型，強調(diào)句，it’s ….that ….這句話強調(diào)的是主語。去掉it’s…that，剩下的完整句子就是：A burst of white noise，people say(插入語)，sounds like static on the radio。
7>. She conducted(進行) an experiment(實驗) in which(引導(dǎo)定語從句，在這項實驗中) people were filmed(被拍攝) by thermal―imaging(熱效應(yīng)成像) cameras(照相機) trying to find their way out of (找到從。。。出去的路)a large __8___ room.
A. smoked煙熏的 B. smoke-filled
C. filled with smoke D. smoke-filling使。。。煙火彌漫的
分析：從上下文可以看出，是一個定語修飾room，表示“充滿了煙火的房間”
答案A，D意思不吻合，C作為定語，位置不應(yīng)放在room前，應(yīng)放后面。只有B才符合句子。
8>. It __9___ them nearly(幾乎) four minutes to find the door __10____ a sound alarm, but only 15 seconds(秒) with one.
9. A. has taken B. takes C. took D. will take
分析：顯然，這個空是考察常用句型：it takes / took sb some time to do sth.關(guān)鍵是確定動詞時態(tài)，從前面看都是過去時態(tài)，所以選擇C。
10. A. on B. near C. without D. from
分析：逗號后面的one應(yīng)該是指a sound alarm，從連詞but可以推斷，前后應(yīng)是意思相反，后面已有了with, 那么前句應(yīng)是without, 所以選擇C。讀讀意思很通順。
9>. Withington studies how(如何) the brain(大腦) __11____sounds at the university.
A processes(處理) B. produces(產(chǎn)生)
C. possesses(擁有) D. proceeds(前進)
分析：句子主語是the brain應(yīng)和“處理”構(gòu)成主謂關(guān)系，而其它動詞均不合適，所以選擇A。
10>. She says that the __12___ of a wide band of frequencies(波段寬的頻率) can be pinpointed(精確地確定) more easily than the source of a narrow band(窄波段).
12. A. feature特征 B. quality質(zhì)量、素質(zhì)
C. diagram圖解 D. source來源
分析：解題關(guān)鍵是要看出句子中主要結(jié)構(gòu)是more…than, 后面出現(xiàn)核心詞the source, 所以可以推斷得出結(jié)論，前面的名詞也應(yīng)是source.這樣符合比較級用法，用來進行比較的事物必須具有可比性。所以選D。
11>. Alarms ___13____ the same concept(觀念、概念) have already been installed(已經(jīng)被安裝) on emergency vehicles(急救車).
A. basis on B. base on C. basing on D. based on
分析：Alarms是主語，have already been installed是謂語，所以要填的動詞應(yīng)該是分詞形式，做定語，所以四個答案只有D可能, be based on以。。。為基礎(chǔ)。
12>. The alarms will also include(包括) rising (上升)or falling(下降) frequencies to indicate(指示) whether (是否)people should go up __14___ down stairs.
A. or B. and C. but D. otherwise
分析：根據(jù)前半句的rising or falling frequencies，可以看出這句話也應(yīng)該填連接詞or, 表示或者。
13>. They were __15__ with the aid of a large grant from British Nuclear Fuels.
A. developed B. determined C. discovered D. delivered
分析：主語they 代指the alarms, 后半句是說這種設(shè)備得到大筆資助。根據(jù)上下文，資助的目的是為了開發(fā)，所以應(yīng)該選A。
14.A 根據(jù)上半句中的rising or falling frequencies,這里應(yīng)填入or, 與上半句表達的意思相一致。音頻升高表示上樓，音頻降低表示下樓。
15. A. 首先確定主語They指的是第一句中的主語The alarms,后半句說這種設(shè)備得到大筆資助，根據(jù)上文內(nèi)容，我們知道資助的目的是開發(fā)這種alarms,所以應(yīng)該選擇developed。