本听力材料来自于老托partb，partc，是公认实施有效的听写材料，对于上手托福时间不长的同学非常适合。我曾经一次短时间备考听力提高了7分也归功老托。希望大家和我一样一定要坚持下来噢。相信坚持学习的同学听力上都会有很大的飞跃！

Nopain, no gain.我们的安排是这样的，第一遍用听力软件精听材料（建议做单句听写，听写的时候不要偷看我给的挖空题），然后按照我给的挖空题填关键词，回复后即可看到听力原文和文章精解，我将把难点和易错点oneby one 分析给大家。

回复填空答案格式如下：1____2____3____...et.al.

So, why did what is now called "modern dance" begin in theUnited States? To begin to answer this question, I'll need to______a little bit and talk about classical______. By the late 1800's, ballet had lost a lot of its popularity. Most of the ballet dancers who performed in theUnited Stateswere brought over from Europe. They performed using the______techniques that had been passed down through the centuries. Audiences and dancers in the United States were eager for their own, "______" dance form. And, so, around 1900, dancers created one. So, how was this "modern" dance so different from classical ballet? Well, most notably, it wasn't carefully______. Instead, the dance depended on the______and free, personal expression of the dancers. Music and______were of little importance to the "modern" dance, and______of movement wasn't important either. In fact, modern dancers made no attempt at all to______the effort involved in a dance step. But even if improvisation appealed to audiences, many dance critics were less than enthusiastic about the performances. They questioned the artistic integrity of dancers who were not professionally trained and the artistic value of works that had no formal structure. Loie Fuller, after performing Fire Dance, was described as doing little more than turning "round and round like an______." Yet, the free, personal expression of the______dancers is the basis of the "____________" of modern dance today.

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