本聽力材料來自于老托partb，partc，是公認實施有效的聽寫材料，對于上手托福時間不長的同學非常適合。我曾經一次短時間備考聽力提高了7分也歸功老托。希望大家和我一樣一定要堅持下來噢。相信堅持學習的同學聽力上都會有很大的飛躍！

Nopain, no gain.我們的安排是這樣的，第一遍用聽力軟件精聽材料（建議做單句聽寫，聽寫的時候不要偷看我給的挖空題），然后按照我給的挖空題填關鍵詞，回復后即可看到聽力原文和文章精解，我將把難點和易錯點oneby one 分析給大家。

回復填空答案格式如下：1____2____3____...et.al.

I'm sure almost every one of you looked at your watch orat a clock before you came to class today. Watches and clocks seem as much apart of our life as breathing or eating. And yet, did you know that watches andclocks were______in the United States until the 1850's? In the late 1700's, people didn't know the exact time unless they were near a clock. Those_____clocks in the_____of European towns were built for the public. After all, most citizens simply couldn't afford a personal______. Well into the 1800's in Europe and the United States,the main purpose of a watch, which, by the way, was often on a gold chain, was to show others how wealthy you were. The word "______" didn't even enter the English language until nearly 1900. By then the rapid pace of______in the Unites States meant that measuring time had become essential. How could the factory worker get to work on time unless he or she knew exactly what time it was? Since______was now measured by how fast a job was done, everyone was interested in time.And since industrialization made possible the manufacture of large quantities of goods, watches became fairly______.______, electric lights kept factories going around the clock. Being on time had entered the language—and life—of every citizen.

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