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(B)Geoffrey Canada has 650 kids in college right now. He’s helped raise a generation of children in New York’s Harlem. He founded the Harlem Children’s Zone in the nineties, leading a bold social experiment using education to break the cycle of poverty for poor children in the United States. He literally turned around Central Harlem, block by block, creating safe zones through schools and community centers for kids to learn and play.“When I sit down and see my young people working hard and studying for a test, it fills my heart with joy,” Canada said. “This is why we created the zone, to see our kids with a real fighting opportunity.”The Zone provides free and comprehensive educational, social and medical services for all 10,000 kids who live in the 96 blocks of central Harlem.“What we wanted to see in Harlem was our community to look like middle class communities, where kids had healthcare, where kids got their teeth fixed from the dentist, where kids were not obese and they were eating nutritional meals, where young people didn't have to worry about gangs and being shot and being killed,” Canada said.His innovations in Harlem made him a focal point in the newly released documentary, “Waiting for ‘Superman’.” The film explores the flaws in the nation’s education system and the solutions some reformers, like Canada, are successfully using to help students.
52. What was the reason why Geoffrey Canada created the Harlem Children’s Zone?
(A) The parents of the children in Harlem wanted him to do so.
(B) He was asked by the mayor of New York to found the Harlem Children’s Zone.
(C) He wanted the children in Harlem to have better knowledge than children in other areas.
(D) He wanted the children in Harlem to have the same opportunity to learn as children in other areas.

參考答案

答案：D
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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