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Educating girls quite possibly yields a higher rate of return than any other investment available in the developing world. Women

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问题     Educating girls quite possibly yields a higher rate of return than any other investment available in the developing world. Women’ s education may be unusual territory for economists, but enhancing women’ s contribution to development is actually as much an economic as a social issue. And economics , with its emphasis on incentives(激励), provides guideposts that point to 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 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. The vicious circle is thus transformed into a virtuous circle.
    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.
By saying "... the prophecy becomes self-fulfilling. . . "(Lines 45 , Para. 2). the author means that______.
选项 A、girls will turn out to be less valuable than boys
B、girls will be capable of realizing their own dreams
C、girls will eventually find their goals in life beyond reach
D、girls will be increasingly discontented with their life at home
答案A
解析 这句话出现在第二段末尾，整个第二段讲的是发展中国家的父母忽视女孩教育的原因。全文一共两个长句，大意是：父母没有在女儿身上投资是因为他们认为女儿不会为家庭做出经济贡献，她们长大后只会嫁人别家生儿育女；女孩因而被视为价值低于男孩而被安排在家中做家务，而男孩则被送入学校学习。预言完成了自我实现。四个答案中A符合文意。
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