摘要：(E) Dirctions: Read the following text and choose the most suitable heading from A-F for each paragraph. There is one extra heading which you do not need. A. Asakawa’s experience and her effort to read code printouts B. Accessibility a serious issue C. IBM’s first Home Page Reader D. Asakawa’s Further research on directions by touching E. Asakawa’s contribution to the blind F. Asakawa’s strong desire to help the sighted 80． Asakawa, 45, has spent the past eight years making the Internet a friendly place for people who can’t see. In 1997 her research group at IBM Japan put out one of the world’s first browsers specifically made to read aloud the contents of Web pages. And last July, her team released software that helps Web designers figure out how to make their home pages accessible to people with poor or no eyesight. 81． Accessibility is a serious issue. The Internet is becoming an increasingly important source of information and services. For people who are blind, the Internet lets them do things on their own for which they previously needed a lot of help, like going shopping. 82． At age 11, Asakawa accidentally hit her head into the side of a pool while swimming, damaging her optic nerves. Three years later, she was completely blinD．At a vocational school for the blind, Asakawa learned to program in various computer languages. To read code printouts she used a device that translated the code into raised letters sensed with the fingers. It was a struggle, she recalls, “But it was possible. 83． In the mid-1990s, she began surfing the Internet, using a combination of software that read out what was on the screen. But there were problems: The system only read English. On-screen fill-out forms stumped the reader, and tables with vertical columns came out as gibberish. Asakawa decided to develop software specifically designed to handle the coding used for Web pages. She inserted aural cues to help browsing, like using a man’s voice for text and a woman’s for links. In 1997 she put out IBM’s first Home Page Reader in Japanese, then in English followed by nine other languages. 84． Asakawa is now doing basic research on using the sense of touch to direct the attention of the blind, as colors do for the sighteD．She hopes this kind of research will also be useful for people with normal vision. “Sighted people don’t use the sense of touch very much, she laughs. “What a waste. 第Ⅱ卷

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