马鞍山市2014高考英语阅读理解、动词短语精讲讲练（16）及答案
(·豫南四校高三调研)“My kids really understand solar and earthheat energy，” says a secondgrade teacher in Saugus, California. “Some of them are building solar collectors for their energy course.” These young scientists are part of City Building Educational Program (CBEP), a particular program for ki ndergarten through twelfth grade that uses the stages of city planning to teach basi c reading, writing and math skills, and more.
The children don't just play any city. They map and analyze the housing, energy, and transportation requirements of their own district and predict its needs in 100 years. With the aid of an architect who visits the classroom once a week, they invent new ways to meet these needs and build models of their creations. “Designing buildings of the future gives children a lot of freedom，” says the teacher who developed this program. “They are able to use their own rich imagination and inventions without fear of blame, b ecause there are no wrong answers in a future context. In fact, as the class enters the final modelbuilding stage of the program, an elected ‘official ’ and ‘planning group’ makes all the design decisions for the model city, and the teacher steps back and becomes an adviser.”
CBEP is a set of activities, games and imitations that teach the basic steps necessary for problemsolving：observing, analyzing, working o ut possible answers, and judging them based on the children's own standards.
语篇解读：加利福尼亚的一名教师别出心裁地设计出一个培养孩子解决问题能力的计划，让他们在城市规划中自由驰骋，潜移默化地学到观察问题、分析问题和解决问题的知识。
