2017年职称英语完形填空模拟题（综合类B级）.docVIP

2017年职称英语完形填空模拟题（综合类B级） 　　Singing Alarms Could Save the Blind If you cannot see, you may not be able to1 find your way out of a burning building — and that could be fatal. A company in Leeds could change all that2____1____ directional sound alarms capable of 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 coining 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____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 ofa large____8____ room. It____9____ them nearly four minutes to find the door____10____ a sound alarm, but only 1seconds 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. directional / d?’rek??nl; da?- / adj.定向的 exit / ‘eks?t / n.出口 install / ?n’st?:l / v.安装 residential / rez?’den??l / adj.居住的 static / ‘st?t?k / n.静电噪声 potential / p?’ten??l / n.潜力 thermal-imaging热效应成像 pinpoint / ‘p?np??nt / v.精确地确定 concept / ‘k?nsept / n.概念，观念 emergency / ?’m??d??ns? / n.紧急情况 grant / grɑ?授予物，准许 1.在谓语动词中，不能并列使用两个情态动词，如may和can就不能并列使用。如果由于表达需要，要同时用“可能”和“能够”，就得