On March 25, 2020, Hannah Davis __26__ with two friends when she realized that she couldn’tunderstand one of their messages. In __27__ , that was the first sign that she had COVID-19. It wasalso her first experience with the phenomenon known as “brain fog,” and the moment when her oldlife contracted into her current one. She once worked in artificial intelligence and analyzed complexsystems without hesitation, but now “runs into a mental wall” when faced with tasks __28__ simpleas filling out forms. Her memory, once vivid, feels frayed and fleeting. Former mundanities—buying food, making meals, cleaning up—can be agonizingly difficult. Her inner world—what shecalls “the extras of thinking, like daydreaming, making plans, imagining”— __29__ gone. For morethan 900 days, while other long-COVID symptoms have waxed and waned, her brain fog has neverreally __30__ .
【題組】26.
(A) was texting
(B) is texting
(C) has texted
(D) texts