Jane Austen,a famous English writer,was born at Stevention,Hampshire,on December 
16,1775,and died on July 18,1817.She began writing early in life,although the prejudices 
of her times forced her to have her books published anonymously(匿名地).?
     But Jane Austen is perhaps the best known and best loved of Bath's many famous local 
people and visitors.She paid two long visits here during the last five years of the eighteenth 
century and from 1801 to 1806,Bath was her home.Her deep knowledge of the city is fully 
seen in two of her novels,Northanger Abbey and Persuasion,which are largely set in Bath.
The city is still very much as Jane Austen knew it,keeping in its streets and public buildings 
the well-ordered world that she described so well in her novels.Now the pleasure of learning
 Jane Austen's Bath can be enhanced(增強)by visiting the Jane Austen Center in Gay Street.
Here,in a Georgian town house in the heart of the city,you can find out more about Bath in 
Jane Austen's time and the importance of Bath in her life and work.
     The Center has been set up with the help and guidance of members of the Jane Austen 
Society.After your visit to the Center,you can look round the attractive shop,which offers a
 huge collection of Jane Austen related books,cards and many specially designed gifts.Jane 
Austen quizzes are offered to keep the children busy.?
     You can also have walking tours of Jane Austen's Bath,which is a great way to find out 
more about Jane Austen and discover the wonderful Georgian city of Bath.The tour lasts 
about one and a half hours.The experienced guides will take you to the places where Jane 
lived,walked and shopped.?

1.Jane Austen paid two lon g visits to Bath ________.   

A.in her early twenties?
B.in her early teens?
C.in her late twenties?
D.on her late teens?

2.What can we learn about Bath from the passage?______.

A.Bath has greatly changed since Jane Austen's death.?
B.The city has changed as much as Jane Austen knew it.?
C.Bath remains almost the same as in Jane Austen's time.?
D.No changes have taken place in Bath since Jane Austen's time.?

3.The author writes this passage in order to  _______.?

A.attract readers to visit the city of Bath?
B.ask readers to buy Austen's books?
C.tell readers about Jane Austen's experience?
D.give a brief introduction to the Jane Austen Society?

4.It takes you about one and a half hours _______.?

A.to get to the Jane Austen Center in Gay Street?
B.to buy Jane Austen related books,cards and gifts?
C.to find a guide to take you to the Center?
D.to look around the city of Bath on foot?

     Jaime Alfonso Escalante was considered one of the best teachers in the United States. He was born
in 1930 in La Paz, Bolivia. He taught math and science in his home country for twelve years.
     In the 1960s, Jaime Escalante and his wife Fabiola came to the United States. During the next several
years, he learned to speak English and repeated his college education and teacher training.
     In 1974, Mr. Escalante was hired at Garfield High School to teach mathematics. The school was in a
poor area of Los Angeles, California. Many of the students in the school had serious problems with illegal drugs, gangs and violence. The school was in danger of losing its official approval to operate.
    Mr. Escalante's students were mostly MexicanAmericans from a Spanishspeaking area of the city.
Many were the worst students at the school and thought to be "unteachable". But Mr. Escalante pushed
the group to work hard. He told them basic math was too easy and that they had the ability to do harder
work.
     Jaime Escalante started an advanced math program with a small group of students. Advanced Placement is a program of collegelevel classes and tests. In 1982, eighteen of his students took the Advanced Placement test in calculus(微積分學). They all passed.
    The officials at the testing company suspected the students of cheating. Mr. Escalante protested(抗議). He said the students were being rejected because they were from a poor school. He urged his students to
take the test again.
     Twelve of the students repeated the test. And again, They all passed. Five earned top scores. Mr.
Escalante's students went on to become engineers, scientists and university professors.
     Jaime Escalante received many teaching awards. A movie about his success, Stand and Deliver, was
released in 1988. It influenced other teachers to use his methods.
    Jaime Escalante retired from teaching in 1998 and later moved back to Bolivia with his wife. He died
when he was seventynine years old.
1. What did Jaime Alfonso Escalante do in the first several years after he moved to the US?(No more
than 11 words)
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2. Why was Garfield High School faced with the risk of being closed down when Jaime Escalante
     joined it? (No more than 15 words)
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3. What made Alfonso Escalante's teaching methods get around? (No more than 9 words)
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4. According to the passage, how long did Jaime Escalante take up teaching all his life? (No more
    than 4 words)
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      Most people know that Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, and the first
person to win it twice. However, few people know that she was also the mother of a Nobel Prize
winner.
     Born in September, 1897, Irene Curie was the first of the Curies' two daughters. Along with nine
other children whose parents were also famous scholars, Irene studied in their own school, and her
mother was one of the teachers. She finished her high school education at the College of S?vign? in
Paris.
     Irene entered the University of Paris in 1914 to prepare for a degree in mathematics and physics.
When World War I began, Irene went to help her mother, who was using X-ray facilities (設(shè)備) to
help save the lives of wounded soldiers. Irene continued the work by developing X-ray facilities in
military hospitals in France and Belgium. Her services were recognised in the form of a Military's
Medal by the French government.  
     In 1918, Irene became her mother's assistant at the Curie Institute. In December 1924, Frederic
Joliot joined the Institute, and Irene taught him the techniques required for his work. They soon fell in
 love and were married in 1926. Their daughter Helene was born in 1927 and their son Pierre five
years later.
     Like her mother, Irene combined family and career. Like her mother, Irene was awarded a Nobel
Prize, along with her husband, in 1935. Unfortunately, also like her mother, she developed leukemia
because of her work with radioactivity(輻射能). Irene Joliot-Curie died from leukemia on March 17,
1956.(www.yygrammar.com)