Unit 3　课下能力提升(十一)　

　　Ⅰ.单句语法填空

　　1．With a fat lady ________ (seat) next to me, I couldn't move a bit on the seat.

　　2．Three fourths of the surface of the earth ________ (be) covered with water.

　　3．It had been half an hour before she found herself ________ (walk) in the wrong direction of her home.

　　4．A number of wounded people ________ sent to the hospital just now. The number of them ________ about three hundred. (be)

　　5．Since the boy always travelled with us, we had him ________ (go) along as usual.

　　6．The game is very boring - no teacher and no student ________ (be) going to take part in it.

　　7．The doctor will not permit him ________ (walk) until his foot is better.

　　8．The problem is so difficult that neither the teacher nor his students ________ (be) able to work it out.

　　9．The famous writer and student ________ (be) a young man, who is very strict in his study.

　　Ⅱ.完成句子

　　1．我们推荐你主持这项工程。

　　We recommend you ________________________．

　　2．从那时起，我既没有收到他的信件，也没有听说过他。

　　I neither ____________ from then on, nor ____________．

　　3．黄油面包是西方人喜爱的食品。

　　Butter and bread ________________ in the West.

　　4．是他们愿意在我遇到麻烦的时候帮助我。

　　It was they that ________________ in time of trouble.

　　5．他的一番话让我深思。

　　His words ________________ deeply.

　　Ⅲ.阅读理解

　　A

　　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 Garfield High School to teach mathematics.

　　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. 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 college­level classes and tests. In 1982, eighteen 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