Two year s ago, Wendy Ha snip, 47,experienced a brain injury that left her speechle s s for two week s.When she finally recovered, she found her self talking with what seemed to be a French accent.“I phoned a friend the other day, and she spent the fir st ten minute s laughing, ” Ha snip said at the time, “while I have nothing again st the French.”
Ha snip suffered from foreign accent syndrome(外国口音综合症), a rare condition in which people find them selve s speaking their own language like someone from a foreign country.The condition u sually occur s in people who have experienced a head injury or a stroke-a sudden lo s s of con sciou sne s s, sen sation, or movement cau sed by a blocked or broken blood ve s selin the brain.
The condition wa s fir st identified during the Second World War in a Norwegian woman who se head wa s injured during an attack by the German military.The woman recovered but wa s left with a German-sounding accent, to the horror of fellow villager s who avoided her after that.
Re searcher s have di scovered that the combined effect of the damage to several part s of the brain make s victim s lengthen certain syllable, mi spronounce sound s, and change the normal pitch(音高)of their voice.Tho se change s in speech add up to what sound s like a foreign accent.
Another re searcher, a phonetician, say s victim s of the syndrome don't acquire a true foreign accent.Their strangely changed speech only re semble s the foreign accent with which it ha s a few sound s in common.
When an Engli sh woman named Annie recently developed foreign accent syndrome after a stroke, she spoke with what seemed to be a Scotti sh accent.However, Annie' s Scotti sh coworker s said she didn't sound at all like a Scot.
(1)
According to the pa s sage, people ________ may have foreign accent syndrome.
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A.
who se parent ha s experienced a head injury
B.
who have lived in a foreign country for a long time
C.
who have lo st their con sciou sne s s owing to a stroke
D.
who have learned foreign language from their coworker s
(2)
If a per son suffer s foreign accent syndrome, ________.
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A.
hi s coworker s will be afraid of him and avoid contacting with him
B.
he ha s more chance of suffering stroke again
C.
he will speak a fluent foreign language like native speaker s
D.
hi s speech only ha s a few sound s in common with the foreign accent
(3)
Writing thi s pa s sage, the writer' s main purpo se i s to ________.
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A.
introduce foreign accent syndrome and some related information
B.
warn people not to be at the ri sk of experiencing a stroke
C.
make it clear that foreign accent syndrome can be cured
D.
tell a story of an injured woman during the Second World War