Question

阅读下列短文，根据所读内容在短文后的表格中填入恰当的单词。注意：表格的每个空格只填一个单词。

Educating girls quite possibly yields a higher rate of return than any other investment （投资）available in the developing world. Women's education may be unusual territory for economists（经济学家）, but enhancing women's contribution to development is actually as much an economic as a social issue. And economics（经济因素）, with its emphasis on incentives, provides guideposts that point to an explanation for why so many girls are deprived（剥夺）of an education.

　　Parents in low-income countries fail to invest（投资）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 art kept at home to do housework while their brothers are sent to school - the prophecy （预言) becomes self- fulfilling, 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 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.

Few will dispute 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 female1.       in developing countries

Opinion	Educating girls in more2.    than any other investment.
Families	From low-income families	From educated mothers’ families
Attitudes	Girls are of less3.          than boys.	Development should be for all4.        .
5.	There is6.    invests ment in daughters. Girls are made to may at home, 7.       housework.	Girls and boys have8.        chances.
Significance	Educating girls9.     to social benefits, conceit advantages and health practices, including faruly planning.
10.	Educating girls in developing countries is important and rewarding.

Answer

1.education

2.beneficial/rewarded/valuable  

3.value/importance/significance

4.children

5.Practices/Measures

6.no/little

7.doing

8.fair/equal/same

9.contributes/leads

10.Conclusion

【解析】

试题分析：

1.原词重现：从第一段的句子：Women's education may be unusual territory for economists可知填 education

2.词义归纳题：从第一段的句子：Educating girls quite possibly yields a higher rate of return than any other investment （投资）available in the developing world. 可知教育女孩是有价值的投资：beneficial/rewarded/valuable   

3.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可知将valuable改成 value/importance/significance

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,可知答案是children

5.归纳题：右边是不同家庭的做法：Practices/Measures

6.词义归纳题：从第二段的句子：Parents in low-income 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/little

7.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

8.原词重现：从第三段的句子：ensuring that her daughters are given a fair chance. 可知填fair/equal/same

9.固定词组题：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contributes/leads

10.归纳题：右边是这篇文章的结论：Conclusion

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