Unit 12 Section One Tactics for listening Part 1 Spot Dictation Dangers in Your Garage Imagine that your home contained a small factory with high explosives, dangerous industrial tools and potentially lethal* (1) energy sources. Sound far-fetched? Not really, because this "factory" is your (2) garage. The National Safety Council (NSC) says that each year (3) household accidents kill about 20,000 Americans and injure another (4) three million. The culprits* in many of these mishaps* are the modem (5) equipment and supplies we keep casually in our garages and tend to (6) take for granted. Last November, in a suburb of Chicago, three toddlers* (7) spilled a can of gasoline stored in a garage. One of the children dropped a tool that (8) struck a spark when it landed on the concrete floor. Violet flames flashed in a loud (9) blast. Two of the children were hideously (10) burned and later died. The other child needed (11) extensive skin grafts* and plastic (12) surgery*. A Wisconsin man was (13) cutting wood last fall. To move a (14) log, he set his chain saw down on the ground but (15) left it running. When he returned for the saw, he (16) stepped on a branch that flipped the spinning (17) saw blade up toward his head. The cutting bits ripped his face from mouth to ear, (18) knocked out four teeth and left his lower lip hanging. It took more than (19) 180 stitches to close the wounds, and later he required neurosurgery* and extensive (20) dental work. Part 2 Listening for Gist What is love? And what causes it? An American professor, Charles Zastrow, offers an interesting answer, particularly to the second question. He argues that there are many kinds of love and that particularly...
