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Unit 3Text APre-reading Activities1. Before you listen to the passage, predict the words that are missing in the printed version of the passage. Then when you hear the passage, mark where you hear differences between your predictions and whats actually on the tape. Dont worry about writing down exactly what you hear — just note where you hear differences.The sense of _____ dominates every modern culture to such an extent that most people never _____. Relying mainly on _____ seems so natural — how could a culture favor _____ instead? What would such a culture be like? Its almost impossible to imagine. But _____ is in fact not as natural as we normally think. Although most humans are born with _____, no one is born knowing how to _____. We must learn _____, and many of the rules we learn vary _____. _____ is an excellent example: Before artists invented formal rules for portraying three dimensions, no one thought of distant objects as looking _____. If you doubt this, try explaining _____ to a young child.2. If you had to lose one of your senses, which one would you choose to give up? And having lost it, what do you think youd miss the most?3. Its common to speak of the five senses — but are there only five? Some researcher say that we all have and use other senses as well. What others can you think of?The Sense of WonderRachel CarsonA childs world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that, for most of us, that clear-eyed vision — that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring — is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. If I had influence with the angels who are supposed to preside over all children, I would ask that their gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.If children are to keep alive their natural sense of wonder without any such gift from the angels, they need the companionship of at least one adult who can s