Two years ago, Wendy Hasnip, 47, experienced a brain injury that left her speechless for two weeks. When she finally recovered, she found herself talking with what seemed to be a French accent. “I phoned a friend the other day, and she spent the first ten minutes laughing,” Hasnip said at the time. “While I have nothing against the French.”

Hasnip suffered from foreign accent syndrome (外国口音综合症), a rare condition in which people find themselves speaking their own language like someone from a foreign country. The condition usually occurs in people who have experienced a head injury or a stroke(中风) — a sudden loss of consciousness, sensation, or movement caused by a blocked or broken blood vessel (血管) in the brain.

The condition was first identified during the Second World War in a Norwegian woman whose head was injured during an attack by the German military. The woman recovered but was left with a German-sounding accent, to the horror of fellow villagers who avoided her after that.

Researchers have discovered that the combined effect of the damage to several parts of the brain makes victims lengthen certain syllables, mispronounce sounds, and change the normal pitch (音高) of their voice. Those changes in speech add up to what sounds like a foreign accent.

Another researcher, a phonetician (语言学者), says victims of the syndrome don’t acquire a true foreign accent. Their strangely changed speech only resembles the foreign accent with which it has a few sounds in common.

When an English woman named Annie recently developed foreign accent syndrome after a stroke, she spoke with what seemed to be a Scottish accent. However, Annie’s Scottish coworkers said she didn’t sound at all like a Scot.

49. According to the passage, people          may have foreign accent syndrome.

A. whose parent has experienced a head injury

B. who have lived in a foreign country for a long time

C. who have lost their consciousness owing to a stroke

D. who have learned foreign language from their coworkers

50. All of the following are the causes of seeming foreign accent EXCEPT         .

A. a softer voice                    B. change in length of syllables

C. mispronounced sounds           D. changed pitch of voice

51. If a person suffers foreign accent syndrome,           .

A. his coworkers will be afraid of him and avoid contacting with him

B. he has more chance of suffering stroke again

C. he will speak a fluent foreign language like native speakers

D. his speech only has a few sounds in common with the foreign accent

52. Writing this passage, the writer’s main purpose is to         .

A. introduce foreign accent syndrome and some related information

B. warn people not to be at the risk 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

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When a cat is frightened, its heart starts beating faster, its muscles get tense, and there are changes in the chemicals in its blood stream. If the danger continues, it will defend itself, or it will run away as fast as possible.

Something like this also happens to people. When we are excited, angry, scared or aroused by other emotions, our bodies go through many physical changes, all of which make us more alert and ready to react. We, too, get ready to defend ourselves or run.Human beings, however, have a problem that animals never face. If we give way to our feelings and let them take over, we can get into trouble. Have you ever said something in anger ― or hit somebody - and regretted it later? Have you ever shouted at a teacher, told somebody you were lonely, or said you were in love, and then wished later you had kept your mouth shut? It isn’t always wise to express your feelings freely.

Does this mean that it’s smarter always to hide our feelings? No! If you keep the feelings of anger, sadness, and bitterness hidden away or bottled up inside, your body stays tense. Physical illnesses can develop, and you can feel disturbed badly inside.It can actual1y be bad for your health.

Feelings that you keep all bottled up inside don’t just go away. It’s as if you bought some bananas and stuck them in a cupboard. You might not be able to see them, but before long you’d smell them. And if you opened the cupboard, chances are that you’d see little fruit flies hovering all over them. They’d be rotten.

You can try to treat emotions as if they were bananas in the cupboard. You can hide them and you can pretend they don’t exist, but they’ll still be around. And at last you’ll have to deal with them, just like those bananas.

49. By taking a cat as an example, the author wants to show us that        .

A. animals can’t control their feelings

B. people can’t control their feelings

C. people’s physical reactions are like those of animals in a way

D. our bodies go through many physical changes in certain situations

50. It’s mentioned in the passage that human beings get into trouble because       .

A. we are not as alert as animals

B. we sometimes can’t control our feelings

C. we always do something wrong to other people

D. we don’t pay attention to our physical changes

51. The author wants to tell us in the last two paragraphs that       .

A. we won’t be able to completely get away from our feelings.

B. we should treat emotions like bananas in a cupboard

C. feelings will gradually disappear when we hold them in

D. it’s good for our health to keep pleasant feelings

52. What would be the best title for the passage?

A. Frightened Cats and Human Beings      B. Feelings and Bananas

C. Deal with Feelings Wisely              D. Express Feelings Freely

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