阅读理解

　　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)

(2)

(3)

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

阅读理解

　　Recently a Beijing father sent in a question at an Interact forum(论坛)asking what “PK” meant．

　　“My family has been watching the ‘Super Girl'singing competition TV programme．My little daughter asked me what 'PK' meant, but I had no idea, ”explained the puzzled father．

　　To a lot of Chinese young people who have been playing games online, it is impossible not to know this term．In such Internet games, “PK” is short for “Player Kill”, in which two players fight until one ends the life of the other．

　　In the case of the “Super Girl” singing competition．“PK” was used to refer to the stage where two singers have to compete with each other for only one chance to go up in competition ranking．

　　Like this father, Chinese teachers at high schools have also been finding their students' compositions using Internet jargons which are difficult to understand．A high school teacher from Tianjin asked her students to write compositions with simple language, but they came up with a lot of Internet jargons that she didn't understand．

　　“My ‘GG' came back this summer from college．He told me I've grown up to be a ‘PLMM'．I loved to ‘FB' with him together；he always took me to the ‘KPM', ”went one composition．

　　“GG” means Ge Ge(Chinese pinyin for brother)．“PLMM” refers to Piao Liang Mei Mei(beautiful girl)．“FB” means Fu Bai(corruption)．“KPM” is short for KF．Pizza Hut and McDonald's．

　　Some specialists welcome Internet jargons as a new development in language．

　　If you do not even know what a Kong Long(dinosaur, referring to an ugly looking female)ora Qing wa(frog, referring to an ugly looking male)is, you will possibly be regarded as a CaiNiao!

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

　　Recently a Beijing father sent in a question at an Interact forum(论坛)asking what “PK” meant．

　　“My family has been watching the ‘Super Girl' singing competition TV program．My little daughter asked me what 'PK' meant, but I had no idea,” explained the puzzled father．

　　To a lot of Chinese young people who have been playing games online, it is impossible not to know this term．In such Internet games, “PK” is short for “Player Kill”, in which two players fight until one ends the life of the other．

　　In the case of the “Super Girl” singing competition．“PK” was used to refer to the stage where two singers have to compete with each other for only one chance to go up in competition ranking．

　　Like this father, Chinese teachers at high schools have also been finding their students' compositions using Internet jargons which are difficult to understand．A high school teacher from Tianjin asked her students to write compositions with simple language, but they came up with a lot of Internet jargons that she didn't understand．

　　“My ‘GG' came back this summer from college．He told me I've grown up to be a ‘PLMM'．I loved to ‘FB' with him together; he always took me to the ‘KPM',” went one composition．

　　“GG” means Ge Ge(Chinese pinyin for brother)．“PLMM” refers to Piao Liang Mei Mei(beautiful girl)．“FB” means Fu Bai(corruption)．“KPM” is short for KFC．Pizza Hut and McDonald's．

　　Some specialists welcome Internet jargons as a new development in language．

　　If you do not even know what a Kong Long(dinosaur, referring to an ugly looking female)ora Qing wa(frog, referring to an ugly looking male)is, you will possibly be regarded as a CaiNiao!

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)