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.

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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