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.

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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