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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
