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  3. Daniel Devlin lives in the same house with his children and sees them every day—yet he is unable to recognize them at all. Mr. D

Daniel Devlin lives in the same house with his children and sees them every day—yet he is unable to recognize them at all. Mr. D

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问题     Daniel Devlin lives in the same house with his children and sees them every day—yet he is unable to recognize them at all. Mr. Devlin, 46, from Nunhead, London, is living with a bizarre condition called prosopagnosia, also known as face-blindness, meaning he【B1】______to recognize faces—even those of his own family. Mr. Devlin, a painter, has been forced to【B2】______his family’s voices and body language in order to know who they are. But reading【B3】______and body language doesn’t always work, and has even mistaken another boy for his son when picking his children up from school before. Mr. Devlin said, " Humans have a special ability to recognize people by seeing their faces, I really don’t have this ability. Maybe a good way to【B4】______what it’s like is to try and recognize people by what their hands look like. Every person has a【B5】______hand but if someone showed you a photo of someone’s hands, you might struggle to recognize who the person is. "
    Experts said the disease is thought to be the result of【B6】______of the brain. This could【B7】______a stroke, brain injury, or some diseases. Or, in cases such as Mr. Devlin’s—the condition is present【B8】______, and the pathways in the brain responsible for recognition never developed properly. It is thought the condition affects up to one in 50 people, the【B9】______of about 1.5 million people in the U. K. Some people with the disease may only struggle to recognize a familiar face, but in more severe cases sufferers cannot distinguish a face as【B10】______an object. Some sufferers are unable to recognize their own faces.
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