Question 9 is based on the passage you have just heard.

Passage One

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    In this week’s edition of special series on Bizarre Medical Conditions, there’s a report of the case of Michelle Myers. (9) Myers is an American woman who woke up one day speaking with a British accent, even though she’s lived in the United States all her life. In 2015, Myers went to bed with a terrible headache. She woke up sounding like someone from England. Her British accent has remained for the past two years. Previously, Myers had woken up speaking in Irish and Australian accents. However, on both of those occasions, the accents lasted for only a week.

    Myers has been diagnosed with Foreign Accent Syndrome. It’s a disorder in which a person experiences a sudden change to their speech so that they sound like they are speaking in a foreign accent. (10) The condition is most often caused by a stroke or traumatic brain injury. Although people with the syndrome have intelligible speech, their manner of speaking is altered in terms of timing and tongue placement, which may distort their pronunciation. The result is that they may sound foreign when speaking their native language.

    It’s not clear whether Myers has experienced a stroke or other brain damage, but she also has a separate medical condition which can result in loose joints, easily bruised skin and other problems. Foreign Accent Syndrome is rare, with only about 60 cases reported within the past century. (11) However, a different American woman reportedly spoke with a Russian accent in 2010 after she fell down the stairs and hit her head.

9. What happened to Michelle Myers one day?

解析：B。录音开头说到，梅耶斯在某一天醒来后开始说英国口音。梅耶斯是美国人而说的是英国口音，与B项a different accent信息对应，因此选B。由于英国口音仍然是英语，与A选项foreign language不符，故排除。而录音后面提到外国口音综合征与某些疾病存在关系，但与梅耶斯自身状况没有关系，也没有说明她自己发现自己出现疾病症状，因此C项错误。