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Unit 6 Section One Tactics for Listening Part 1 Spot Dictation Wind and Spirit We do notice the wind when it seems (1) cruel, when the trees turn away from it, and it (2) cuts into our hearts. Certain winds will make mens (3) temper bad, said George Eliot. In Southern California, the Santa Ana* is (4) associated with an increase in depression and domestic (5) violence Scientists have tried (6) without success to identify physiological reasons for these (7) reactions .Everyone agrees, however, that (8) dry winds like the Santa Ana, the mistral* in France and the foehn* in Germany and Switzerland seem to have (9) negative effects on our mental and physical (10) negative effects On windy days, playground fights, (11) suicides and heart failures are more (12) frequent. In Geneva, traffic accidents (13) increase when a wind called the bise* blows. At the (14) request of patients, some Swiss and German hospitals (15) postpone surgery during the foehn. It is human to ask what is (16) behind the wind. lt is easy to personify the wind as the (17) breath of God. The act of taking wind into our lungs is what (18) gives us life. The Jews, Arabs, Romans and Greeks all took their word for (19) spirit from the word for wind. But our day-to-day lives are no longer (20 spirit the winds. We do not identify wind with spirit anymore. Exercise Directions: Listen to the passage and fill in the blanks with what you hear. Part 2 Listening for Gist A cat got on to a Scandinavian Airlines plane in Nairobi yesterday and cost the company about ￡10,000. One of the 66 passengers heard a strange miaow when the plane landed in Copenhagen. Mechanics arrived immediately and the airline company phoned for an animal ambulance. The mechanics found the cat after eight hours work. It had got into the air-conditioning system in Nairobi. The plane was twelve hours late leaving for Tokyo, costing the company ￡10,000. The cat was quite well after its experience and was given a large bowl of milk