托福范文：舞蹈在文化中的作用

　　[题目]

　　Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Dancing plays animportant role in a culture. Use specific reasons and examples to support youranswer.

　　[参考范文]舞蹈在文化中起到重要的作用，同意与否?

　　Around the world, people gather to explore their emotions through dance.The dances are created as part of celebrations, as religious services, aspreparation for challenging hunts and warfare and to express sorrow (less oftenthan the other situations). Indeed, dance does play an important role within aculture and reveals a wide range of information about the characteristics of aculture. Three of the most revealing aspects of dance are the nature of theculture's symbols and art forms revealed in costumes and equipment, the bodylanguage (moves and gestures) which give information about social contactbehaviors and frequently the style of preferred music for the culture.

　　Ethnic dances, and certainly popular dancing, anywhere around the worldhave associated preferences for costumes and special clothing. Through dancing,the participants are able to reveal and express their chosen role in thegarments they choose; social roles in the dance are shown public ally to theobservers as well as the other dancers. Frequently dancers utilize objects likeswords or sticks or hoops or musical instruments to further reveal informationabout their role in the social story portrayed in the dance. Items such asspecial headwear and jewelry are further examples of the garments that ingeneral express preferences and culturally significant details about theparticular culture.

　　Dancers, by the very nature of the activity, physically express beliefs andattitudes associated with their specific culture. In many dances theparticipants are modeling typical activities of their culture and thus impartinginstructions and historical information to the audience.