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     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 -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 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.

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 lost their consciousness owing to a stroke

D. who have learned foreign language from their coworkers

2. 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

3. 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

答案

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阅读理解

It is the last lesson before the winter vacation. The students are very happy. Their English teacher is very happy, too. Their teacher plays some nice games with them. She sings some nice songs with them, and then she remembers something and goes to the blackboard and writes “SMILES” on it. “This is the longest word in English,” she says to the class. All the students laugh, and then one girl stands up and asks, “Why is it the longest word in English?”

The teacher says nothing for a few seconds(秒). Then she smiles(微笑) and says, “Because there is a mile between the first letter and the last one.”

根据短文内容选择正确答案。

( ) 1. Why were the English teacher and the students very happy? Because       .

A. it was the last day before the vacation.

B.It was the last lesson before the vacation.

C. The teacher sang some nice songs with the students.

( ) 2. How did they spend the last lesson?

A. they played some nice games.        

B. They sang some nice songs.

C. Both A and B.

( ) 3. What did the teacher write on the blackboard?

A. Smiles             B. Smells          C. Slows

( ) 4. A girl stood up and asked the teacher,  “             ?”

A. Why is the word so long            

B. Why is it the longest word

C. Why did all the students laugh

( ) 5. The word “SMILES”is one of the longest words in English because        .

A. there is a “mile”between the first “s” and last one   

B. it has many letters

C. there are two “s” in the word

单项选择题 A3/A4型题