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Educating girls quite possibly harvests a higher rate of return than any other investment available in the developing world. Women’s education may be an unusual economical field, but increasing women’s contribution to development is actually as much an economic as a social issue. And economics, with its focus on encouragement, provides an explanation for why so many girls are rid of an education.

Parents in low-income countries fail to invest in their daughters because they do not expect them to make an economic contribution to the family: girls grow up only to marry into somebody else’s family and bear children. Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and are kept at home to do housework while their brothers are sent to school-the prophecy becomes self-fulfilling, trapping women in a vicious(惡性的) circle of neglect.

An educated mother, on the other hand, has greater earning abilities outside the home and faces an entirely different set of choices. She is likely to have fewer but healthier children and can insist on the development of all her children, ensuring that her daughters are given a fair chance. The education of her daughters then makes it much more likely that the next generation of girls, as well as of boys, will be educated and healthy. The vicious circle is thus transformed into a virtuous circle.

Few will argue that educating women has great social benefits. But it has enormous economic advantages as well. Most obviously, there is the direct effect of education on the wages of female workers. Wages rise by 10 to 20 per cent for each additional year of schooling. Such big returns are impressive by the standard of other available investments, but they are just the beginning. Educating women also has a significant effect on health practices, including family planning.

Topic: The significance of female 1. in developing countries

Viewpoint	Educating girls is more 2. and worthy of being invested.
Families	From low-income families	From educated mothers’ families
Attitudes	Girls are of 3. importance than boys.	Development should be for all the 4. .
Practices	There is little 5. in daughters, while boys are sent to school. Girls are made to stay at home, 6. housework.	It is insisted that girls and boys be offered chances to be 7. equally.
Consequences	A vicious circle	A virtuous circle
Significance	Educating women contributes to social 8. , has economic advantages and 9. health practices significantly, including family planning.
10.	Educating girls in developing countries is important and rewarding.

 

Answer 1

1.education

2.beneficial

3.less

4.children

5.investment

6.doing

7.educated

8.benefits

9.affects

10.Conclusion

【解析】

試題分析：題目主要考查學(xué)生聯(lián)系上下文、提取有效信息的能力，個別題目需要對信息進行加工，轉(zhuǎn)換為其同義詞或短語。

1.Educating girls quite possibly harvests a higher rate of return ...Women’s education may be an unusual economical field”可知，文章主要講的是女性的受教育問題，故填education。

2.Educating girls quite possibly harvests a higher rate of return than any other investment...”可知，提高女性的受教育水平，比任何其它的投資都能收到更多的益處�？瞻滋幩�填詞與worthy并列，都是形容詞，beneficial有益的，根據(jù)最后一段“has great social benefits”可知答案，故填beneficial。

3.Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys”可知，女孩的地位沒有男孩重要，故填less。

4.and can insist on the development of all her children”可知，受過教育的母親，會給她的孩子們同樣的發(fā)展自我的機會，故填children。

5.than any other investment”可知，這里說的是除了教育投資以外的其它投資，any other+名詞，意為“任何其它的”，故填investment。

6.are kept at home to do housework”可知，女孩從小就被要求待在家里做家務(wù)，需要注意的是，這里使用的是非謂語動詞，表示伴隨狀況，故填doing。

7.ensuring that her daughters are given a fair chance. The education of her daughters then makes it much...”可知，受過教育的母親會給男孩和女孩公平的受教育的機會，故填educated。

8.educating women has great social benefits”可知，讓女性接受教育會帶來很好的社會效益，故填benefits。

9.has a significant effect on health practices”可知，女性受教育能影響到健康傳統(tǒng)，包括家庭計劃，文中用的是固定短語have an effect on sth，這里需要轉(zhuǎn)換為動詞affect，故填affects。

10.Educating girls in developing countries is important and rewarding.在發(fā)展中國家，讓女性接受教育是重要且有回報的。這是文章的結(jié)論，conclusion結(jié)論，需要大寫，故填Conclusion。

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