[单选题]21.   Today we remember a man who was considered one of the best teachers in the United

States. Jaime Alfonso Escalante was born in 1930 in La Paz, Bolivia. Both his parents were

teachers. 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 GarfieldHigh School to teach

mathematics. The school was in a poor area of Los Angeles, California. Many of the students

had serious problems with illegal drugs, gangs and violence. 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.

He told his students that he believed in them, but they must have the desire to be

successful. Jaime Escalante started an advanced math program with a small group of students.

Advanced Placement is a program of college-level classes and tests. In 1982, 18 of his

students took the Advanced Placement test in calculus. They all passed. Officials at the

testing company suspected the students of cheating. Mr. Escalante protested. He said the

students were being rejected because they were Hispanic and from a poor school. He urged his

students to take the test again. Twelve of the students repeated the test. And again, all of

them passed. Five earned top scores. Mr. Escalante's students went on to become engineers,

scientists and university professors. The advanced math program at Garfield became extremely

successful over the next several years. Jaime Escalante received many teaching awards

including the Presidential Medal of Excellence in Education. A movie about his success,

“Stand and Deliver”, was released in nineteen eighty-eight. It influenced other teachers to

use his methods.(10分)

21.1  What did Mr. Escalante do after he came to the US?(2分)
A. He taught math and science in a local school.
B. He went to a college to learn calculus.
C. He learned to speak English and got trained on teaching.
D. He started an advanced math program in a college.

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