文档介绍：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
men's (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)
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
humanto ask what is (16)
behind the wind. It
is easy to personify
the wind as the (17)
breath of
God
wind into
our lungs
. The act of taking
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
not identify wind with spirit anymore.

the winds.

We do
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