2018--2019学年 江苏高三上 英语 期中试卷 分类汇编---任务型（含答案）

2018- -2019学年 江苏高三上 英语 期中试卷 分类汇编---任务型阅读（含答案） 无锡 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 issue as a social one. And economics， with its focus on encouragement， provides an explanation for why so many girls are rid of an education. Parents in low­income 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(观念)becomes self­fulfilling， trapping women in a vicious(恶性的) circle of neglect. An educated mother， on the other hand， has greater earning abilities outside the home and faces an entirely