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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. \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
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Germany and Switzerland seem to have (9) negative effects on our mental and physical (10) well-being.
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. It 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 blown on the winds. We do not identify wind with spirit
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anymore.
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 \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 and a plate of fish.
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Exercise
Directions: Listen to the passage and find its topic sentence.
The topic sentence is \Airlines plane in Nairobi yesterday and cost the company about ￡10.000.\
Section Two
Listening Comprehension
Part 1 Dialogue What a Coincidence!
Storyteller: Talking of coincidences, did I tell you about what happened to me and Jeannie last
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holiday? Friend(s): No.
Storyteller: We went on holiday in the States and we went to Mexico. Well, we were driving down to Mexico City. We were going to spend a few days in Palm Beach ... see the sea, look up an old friend, you know. As we left there we stopped at a garage for a car check ... oil, the water, the tires, all that ... petrol. And the mechanics spotted something. They said that our fuel pump was not working properly and it was quite serious ... it would cost a lot of money ... well, we were very worried.
Friend(s): Were you insured?
Storyteller: Well, no, we weren't and I didn't have that much money on me, you know. It was meant to be a
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