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) 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