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 (觀念) 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 beneficial and worthy of being (2)_______________ .
  Families
 From low-income families
 From educated mothers' families
  Attitudes
 Girls are of less (3)______________     than boys.
 Development should be for all the 
(4)______________.
  Practices
 There is (5)________________         investment 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 educated                (7)_____________ .
 Consequences
   A vicious circle
     A virtuous circle
 Significance
Educating women (8)___________ to social benefits, has economic advantages and (9)____________ health practices significantly, including family planning.
(10)_________ 
Educating girls in developing countries is important and rewarding.


【小題1】education
【小題2】invested
【小題3】value/importance/significance
【小題4】children
【小題5】no/little
【小題6】doing
【小題7】fairly/equally
【小題8】contributes/leads
【小題9】affects
【小題10】Conclusion

解析試題分析：文章介紹很多發(fā)展中國家不重視對女孩的教育，而實際上，教育女孩是有價值的投資。
【小題1】原詞重現(xiàn)：從第一段的句子：Women's education may be unusual territory for economists可知教育女孩是有價值的投資：填 education
【小題2】詞性轉(zhuǎn)化題：從第一段的句子：Educating girls quite possibly harvests a higher rate of return than any other investment available in the developing world.可知將investment改成 invested
【小題3】詞義歸納題從第二段的句子：Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and art kept at home to do housework可知將valuable改成 value/importance/significance
【小題4】原詞重現(xiàn)：從第三段的句子：She is likely to have fewer but healthier children and can insist on the development of all her children,可知答案是children
【小題5】詞義歸納題：從第二段的句子：Parents in low-income countries fail to invest（投資）in their daughters because they do not expect them to make an economic contribution to the family 可知低收入家庭不會或很少投資女孩的教育，填no/little
【小題6】詞形轉(zhuǎn)化題：從第二段的句子：Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and art kept at home to do housework可知填 doing
【小題7】詞形轉(zhuǎn)化題：從第三段的句子：ensuring that her daughters are given a fair chance. 可知填fairly/equally
【小題8】固定詞組題：從第四段的句子：Few will dispute that educating women has great social benefits. But it has enormous economic advantages as well.可知填contributes/leads contributes/leads
【小題9】詞形轉(zhuǎn)化題：從最后一段的句子：Educating women also has a significant effect on health practices, including family planning.可知effects改成 affects
【小題10】歸納題：右邊是這篇文章的結(jié)論：Conclusion
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