精聽建議：

先完整地把一條新聞聽一到三遍，爭取掌握大意。然后，一句一句精聽，力爭每句話都聽明白。遇到實(shí)在不懂的地方，再聽寫。

下面的文本材料中空缺部分里面要填的詞都很簡單，不過是一些值得注意的連讀或者典型的美式發(fā)音哦，有些語速比較快。試試看，你能不能全部寫對(duì)？

（參考文本，歡迎指出錯(cuò)誤^^）

Lesson47 Jaime Escalante

Jaime Escalante was a teacher from Bolivia. He 1 Los Angeles in 1963. He was thirty-three years old and spoke almost no English.
Life was difficult for Escalante in the United States. He could not be a teacher in California. He had to go to college again. It took him many years, but he did it. He worked at a restaurant to support his family 2 . Finally, when he was 3 he started to work at Garfield High School in Los Angeles. This school had a bad name. There were many gangs and the students were not doing well. Soon Escalante changed things.
Escalante worked with his students. He taught them math. He used his own methods, and they worked. The students learned and enjoyed their math. In 4 , fourteen of his students passed an advanced math examination. Nobody believed this.
People said the students were 5 . The students wanted to show they were not cheating. They took the exam again. And they passed again. This was a miracle in a place like Garfield! This was the work of Jaime Escalante.
Every year Escalante produced top class students. People know him as one of the best teachers in America. There is even a movie and a book about him.

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