Educating girls quite possibly harvests a higher rate of benefit than any other investment available in the developing world. Women’s education may be an unusual field for economists, but increasing women’s contribution to development is actually as much an economic as a social issue. And economics, with its focus on rewards, provides an explanation for why so many girls are deprived of(剥夺)an education.
Parents in low-ine 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 predict bees self-ffulfilling, trapping women in a vicious circle (恶性循环) 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 and sons are given fair chances. 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(良性循环).
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 impact on health practices, including family planning.
Topic: The significance of 【小题1】 in developing countries
Viewpoint
Educating girls is more 【小题2】 than any other investment.
From low-ine families
From educated mothers’ families
Attitudes
Girls are of 【小题3】 than boys.
Development should be for 【小题4】 .
Practices
●There is 【小题5】 investment in daughters.
●Girls are made to stay at home, 【小题6】 housework.
Girls and boys are sure to have 【小题7】 .
Consequences
A vicious circle
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Educating girls contributes to social benefits, 【小题10】 and health practices, including family planning.
Educating girls in developing countries is important and rewarding.
educating girls’s/women or: girl’s/women/female’s education
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(答案→)educating girls’s/women or: girl’s/women/female’s education
解析:文章介绍很多发展中国家不重视对女孩的教育,而实际上,教育女孩是有价值的投资。
【小题1】主旨题:从第一段的句子:Women's education may be unusual territory for economists可知这篇文章讲的是教育女孩的重要性:填educating girls’s/women or: girl’s/women/female’s education
【小题2】句意归纳题:从第一段的句子:Educating girls quite possibly harvests a higher rate of return than any other investment available in the developing world.可知教育女孩比其他投资都有益:beneficial
【小题3】词义归纳题,从第二段的句子:Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and art kept at home to do housework可知将less valuable改成less value
【小题4】原词重现:从第三段的句子:She is likely to have fewer but healthier children and can insist on the development of all her children,可知答案all children
【小题5】词义归纳题:从第二段的句子:Parents in low-ine countries fail to invest(投资)in their daughters because they do not expect them to make an economic contribution to the family 可知低收入家庭不会或很少投资女孩的教育,填no/ not any
【小题6】词形转化题:从第二段的句子:Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and art kept at home to do housework可知填 doing
【小题7】词形转化题:从第三段的句子:ensuring that her daughters are given a fair chance. 可知填fair chances
【小题8】原词重现:从第三段的句子:The vicious circle is thus transformed into a virtuous circle(良性循环).可知这种恶性循环会变成良性循环: A virtuous circle
【小题9】归纳题:右边是这篇文章的结论: Conclusion/Summary
【小题10】原词重现:从第四段的句子:Few will dispute that educating women has great social benefits. But it has enormous economic advantages as well.可知填enormous economic advantages