Educating girls quite possibly produces a higher rate of return than any other investment(投

资)available in the developing world．Women’s education may be an unusual field for experts On economy(经济)，but improving women’s contribution to development is actually as much all economic as a social business．And economics provides an explanation for why so many girls are

deprived of an education．

    Parents in low-income countries fail to invest in their daughters because they do not expect them to make all 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．Ignoring women’s education is therefore in a bad circle．

    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, making sure 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 bad circle is thus changed into a good

 circle．

    Educating women has great social benefits and great 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．

63．The author argues that educating girls in developing countries is           ．

    A．troublesome                   B．labor-saving           C．rewarding         D．expensive

64．The author believes that a bad circle can turn into a good circle when          ．

    A. women care much more about education

    B. girls can gain equal access to education

    C. a family has fewer but healthier children

    D. parents can afford their daughters' education

65．What does the underlined phrase“deprived of”mean in Paragraph One?

    A．supplied with          B． included in                C．kept away from    D．devoted to

66．The passage mainly discusses          .

    A. unequal treatment of boys and girls in developing countries

    B. the potential earning power of well-educated women

    C. the major contributions of educated women to society

    D. the economic and social benefits of educating women

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The chairman will be pleased at ________ scene that everything is in ________ place.

A. a; a                         B. the; the                           C. the; 不填                      D. 不填; the

25．Some of the exercises appear to be ____ ones that you have done, but after taking _____second look, you will find that they are difficult.

A. /; the      B. the ; the        C. the; a       D. the ; /

34．He took his washing machine just bought dozens of days previously for 1800 yuan in the Guo Mei Applicance in for repair it needed replacing rather than _______

       A．having been told, being repaired    B．only to be told , being fixed

       C．just to be told, being mended      D．having been told, to be fixed

12. —It is reported in the local newspaper that the murderer was caught in a small town.

—__________.

       A. Justice has long arms                                    B. One false move may lose the game

       C. Lies have short legs                                      D. Kings go mad, and the people suffer from it

18. Believe me, nobody can _____ you in this company.

A. take place   B. take the place     C. take the place of D. replace of