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A pet parrot that spoke with a British accent when it disappeared from its home four years ago has been reunited with its owner ---- and the bird now speaks Spanish.

The reunion was brought about by Teresa Micco, a Southern California veterinarian who mistook Nigel, an African gray parrot, for her own missing bird, the Daily Breeze reported on Sunday.

Teresa Micco tracked Nigel’s microchip(徽芯片) to Darren Chick, a British man who lives in Torrance, California. “I introduced myself and said, ‘Have you lost a bird?’ ”Micco told the newspaper. “He first said, ‘No’ But he thought I meant recently ” When she checked on Chick’s name and said she had his African gray parrot, “He looked at me like I was crazy. ” He said his bird had gone missing for four years earlier.

Little is known about Nigel’s whereabouts (行蹤) for the past four years, but Chick says the bird’s British accent is gone, and it now chatters in Spanish. Chick says last week’s reunion brought tears of joy to his eyes---despite the fact that Nigel bit him when he first tried to pick him up.

Micco said the behaviour was not unusual and that Nigel would settle back in soon enough. “He is doing very well,” Chick told the newspaper. “It is really strange. I knew it was him from the minute I saw him”

It is the fifth parrot reunion helped by Micco, who has been running advertisements for her own missing bird for nine months. That parrot, Benjamin, escaped in February when it flew out through a door that had been left open.

Julissa Sperling found Nigel outside her home and brought him to Micco after seeing one of her advertisements. “He was the happiest bird. He was singing and talking all the time,” Sperling said. “He was barking like my dogs. I am from Panama, and he was saying, ‘What happened?’ in Spanish.”

25. What happened to Darren Chick four years ago?

A. He became a veterinarian.

B. He put an advertisement in a newspaper.

C. His family moved to Torrance

D. He lost his pet parrot

26. What can be inferred from the fourth paragraph?

A. Nobody knows for sure where Nigel had been.

B. Nigel now greets people in English

C. Chick was reunited with Nigel a week later

D. Nigel recognised Chick when they met.

27. What is the main idea of the text?

A. A man finds that his bird can speak Spanish