题型：语法填空（语篇） 题类：常考题 难易度：困难
上海市杨浦区2021届高三上学期英语期中试卷
Foreign Accent Syndrome(综合症)
31-year-old Emily's life changed greatly in January, when a mysterious condition left her unable to speak for two months. She (complain) about headaches for two weeks before one day her colleagues then noticed that her speech had become slow and unclear, both indicators of a stroke. she was rushed to the hospital, Emily had lost her ability to speak completely. After running some tests, doctors ruled out the stroke, instead (blame) her voice loss on some sort of brain injury.
After spending three weeks in the hospital, Emily was still unable to speak and relied solely on basic sign language she had picked up at work and a text-to-speech app on her phone (communicate). Encouraged by her doctor, Emily went on a vacation in Thailand. A few days into the vacation, she started to speak again.
How (shock) it was when Emily originally noticed her Eastern European accents, but even more so when she noticed that sometimes her accent would change out of the blue, to Polish, Italian and even French. Although she doesn't know the reason may help explain her condition, she has noticed that it has something to do with how tired she is. In March of 2020, she was officially diagnosed with was commonly called Foreign Accent Syndrome.
"I was so excited when my voice started coming back but now I don't even recognize the voice that comes out of my mouth, it doesn't sound me," Emily told the reporters.
Now her voice is back, but unfortunately she has to deal with discrimination(歧视) from people who think she is an immigrant, and has taken time off work because stress only make her condition worse.
Emily's case sounds shockingly similar to of Michelle Myers, an Arizona woman who never traveled outside of the United States, but woke up to speaking in multiple accents-British, Irish and Australian- after experiencing severe headaches. She too was diagnosed with Foreign Accent Syndrome.
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