试题题干
Summarization
Directions: In this section of the test, there are ten paragraphs. Each of the paragraph is followed by an incomplete phrase or sentence which summarizes the main idea of the paragraph. Spell out the missing letters of the word.
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.
Girls are n_____ in poor countries.
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试题解析
本段主要讲述的是在贫穷的国家女孩子处于被忽视的地位。低收入国家的父母不会对他们的女儿投入大多，因为他们并不期望女儿能为家庭做出经济上的贡献：女孩长大就是为了嫁到别人家，并生儿育女。因此，女孩的价值似乎没有男孩大。她们只能在家里做做家务，而男孩子则要送到学校接受教育。neglected 被忽视的；nobody 小人物。