Passage 2Questions 6 to 10 are b

Passage 2

Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage.

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 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 are kept at home to do housework while their brothers are sent to school- the prophecy (预言） becomes self-fulfilling tapping women in a vicious circle (恶性循环) of neglect.

An educated mother, on the other hand, earns more and faces an entirely different set of choices. She is likely to have fewer but healthier children and insist on the development of all her children, ensuring that her daughters art given a fair chance. Th
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 percent for each additional ye
According to the author, educating girls in developing countries may .
A.be more rewarding than expected
B.cause annoying problems and difficulties
C.bring to an end social and economic problems
D.bring a family into a financially difficult situation

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