I first met her on the beach near where I live.I drive to this beach, a 1 of three or four miles, whenever I’m feeling down.At that time she was 2 something.
Looking 3 ,she said,“Hello.”I nodded,not wanting to 4 with a small child.
“I’m Wendy and I’m building something.”she said.
“I see, but what is it?” I asked,not 5 .
“Don’t know,I just like the 6 of sand.”
A sandpiper(矶鹞鸟)flew by.
“That’s a 7 .Mum says sandpipers come to bring us joy.”
“Good-bye,joy,”I thought to myself,”Hello, 8 .”and walked away.My life then seemed completely out of 9 .
“Come again,”she called.”and have another 10 day.”
But the days and weeks that followed 11 to other people:naughty boys and a 12 mother.One morning I suddenly realized I needed my 13 and headed for the beach.The breeze was cool, but I walked along,trying to recapture(捕捉)the inner peace I needed.I had almost 14 the child so I was surprised when she appeared.
“ 15 do you live?” I asked.She pointed toward a summer cottage.
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“Why?” she asked.
“My mother died! “
“Did it hurt when she died?”
“Of course it hurt!” I shouted,misunderstanding her.
When I next went to the beach, she wasn’t there. Feeling 19 , and admitting I 20 her,
I went up to the cottage. A woman answered the door. “Wendy, my daughter, died last week. She had leukemia(白血病). May be she didn’t tell you.”
1.A.length B.distance C.space D.reach
2.A.observing B.drawing C.building D.collecting
3.A.up B.out C.down D.over
4.A.work B.play C.stay D.talk
5.A.caring B.seeing C.wanting D.worrying
6.A.feel B.sense C.smell D.comfort
7.A.sorrow B.joy C.pity D.lie
8.A.comfort B.pleasure C.kindness D.pain
9.A.balance B.sight C.mind D.range
10.A.sad B.happy C.busy D.fine
11.A.added B.led C.belonged D.related
12.A.kind B.poor C.lonely D.sick
13.A.partner B.sandpiper C.chance D.holiday
14.A.searched B.known C.noticed D.forgotten
15.A.How B.What C.Where D.Which
16.A.mood B.time C.way D.place
17.A.alone B.lonely C.unique D.special
18.A.happy B.pale C.good D.powerful
19.A.sorry B.excited C.cold D.puzzled
20.A.cheated B.lost C.troubled D.missed
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),am 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)一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 syllable,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 at me 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 like a Scot.
1.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 lest their consciousness owing to a stroke
D.who have learned foreign language from their coworkers
2.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
3.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
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4.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