2005年1月大学英语六级考试真题试卷 - 完型

Although there are many skillful Braille readers. Thousands of other blind people find it
difficult to learn that system. They are thereby shut___61_____ from the world of books and newspapers,
having to __62_____ on friends to read aloud to them.
A young scientist named Raymond Kurzweil has now designed a computer which is a major ____63_____
in providing aid to the ____64_____. His machine, Cyclops, has a camera that ____65_____ any page,
interprets the print into sounds. And then delivers them orally in a robot-like ______66____ through
a speaker. By pressing the appropriate buttons ___67_____ Cyclops’s keyboard, a blind person can
“read” any ____68_____ document in the English language.
This remarkable invention represents a tremendous ____69______ forward in the education of the
handicapped. Atpresent, Cyclops costs $50,000. _____70_____, Mr. Kurzweil and his associates are
preparing a smaller ___71_____ will sell _____72____ less than half that price.
Within a few years, Kurzweil ____73_____ the price range will be low enough for every school and library
to ____74___ one. Michael Hingson, Director of the National Federation for the Blind, hopes that _____75____
will be able to buy home ___76____ of Cyclops for the price of a good television set.
Mr. Hingson’s organization purchased five machines and is now testing them in Maryland. Colorado,
Iowa, California, and New York. Blind people have been ____77____ in those tests, making lots of ____78_____
suggestions to the engineers who helped to produce Cyclops.
“This is the first time that blind people have ever done individual studies _____79___ a product
was put on the market,” Hingson said. “Most manufacturers believed that having the blind help the blind
was like telling disabled people to teach other disabled people. In that___80___ . The manufacturers have
been the blind ones.”

61. A) up B) down C) in D) off

62. A) dwellB) relyC) pressD) urge

63. A) executionB) distinctionC) breakthroughD) process

64. A) paralyzed B) uneducated C) invisibleD) sightless

65. A) scans B)enlargesC) sketchesD) projects

66. A) behaviorB) expression C) movement D) voice

67. A) on B)atC)in D) from

68. A) visualB) printed C) virtual D) spoken

69. A) stride B) trail C) haulD) footprint

70. A) LikewiseB) Moreover C)However D) Though

71. A) butB) than C)orD) then

72. A)onB) forC) throughD) to

73. A) estimates B) considersC) countsD) determines

74. A) settle B) own C) investD) retain

75. A) schools B) childrenC) familiesD) companies

76. A) models B) modesC) casesD) collection

77. A) producingB) researching C)ascertaining D) assisting

78. A) trueB) valuable C) authenticD) pleasant

79. A) after B) when C) beforeD) as

80. A) occasion B) momentC) senseD) event