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　　Mama' s voice floated through the apartment a s she sang a Mexican folk song that I had heard all my life．“Hola, ” she greeted me when she came out of the bedroom．“Plea se speak to me in 　　1　　, ” I interrupted．She paid no attention and 　　2　　 speaking in Spani sh．The word s 　　3　　 me of my grandparent s and birthday partie s in Mexico, but I knew my mother' s life would be 　　4　　 if she learned to speak Engli sh．We had lived in the United State s for three year s, and she still had difficulty 　　5　　 to store owner s and my teacher s．I wa s determined that she should try．“Why won't you speak Engli sh? ” I 　　6　　．“Don't you want to be 　　7　　 to talk to people here? ” “I sabel, ” she whi spered．Mama alway s whi spered when she wa s up set with me．“What? ” I wa s not 　　8　　 with her, either．She 　　9　　 for the Engli sh word s．“Come with me to the, uh-how do you say it? Meeting．” “What kind of meeting? Where i s it? ” I 　　10　　 her, but now she refu sed to an swer．In 　　11　　, we drove acro s s town to the college, where she pulled into a brightly lit parking lot．I wa s 　　12　　．I had expected a meeting at someone' s 　　13　　-a garden club or a parent s’ group．Then I 　　14　　 a sign on a door．My mother wa s 　　15　　 night cla s se s to learn Engli sh!

　　“I don't under stand．　　16　　 you’re learning Engli sh, why won't you speak Engli sh at home? ” I a sked．“You'll learn fa ster if you 　　17　　 with me．” “I speak Engli sh here, ” she said in her thick accent．She he sitated, putting the word s together, and then went on, “I speak Spani sh at home 　　18　　 you．”

　　I 　　19　　 under stood-she spoke Spani sh at home so that I wouldn't forget the word s, song s, and 　　20　　 of Mexico．I said, “O．K．, Mama, e stabien．”

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　　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．

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　　My father made a deal with me that he would match whatever I could come up with to buy my fir st car．From the time I wa s a saver．My allowance, back in tho se day s, wa s twenty five cent s a week．I grew up on a farm near a small town called Ventura．In tho se day s the area wa s mo stly agricultural．The climate wa s and still i s a s clo se to perfect a s you could get．I earned some of my money picking one crop or another．When I wa s about ten, a school friend' s family owned walnut orchard s(果园)and it wa s harve st time．She told me we could earn five dollar s for every bag of walnut s we picked．I certainly learned about picking walnut s that day．Not surprisingly, that wa s my fir st and la st time a s a walnut picker．

　　In 1960 my grandmother pa s sed away．She left me 100 share s of AT＆T．One hundred share s of stock don't seem like much today but back then tho se share s paid me＄240 per year in dividend s(利息)．That wa s huge for a kid my age．

　　By the time I wa s seventeen．I had saved up ＄ 1, 300 and I knew exactly that I wanted．Ithink my father wa s somewhat suri sed when I announced I had saved up ＄ 1, 300 and wa s ready to buy my new car．I'll never forget the evening my father said, “Let' s go see about that car”．I wa s so excited．

　　My father could have ea sily ju st given me the car but he alway s in si sted that hi s children work for what they got．Thi s wa s not a bad thing．I learned self-reliance．Self-reliance i s equal to freedom．Now that I think about it I need to be thanking my father．

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