江西省横峰县横峰中学高三上学期英语第10周周练试卷Word版含答案.docVIP

横峰中学2015—2016学年度上学期第九周周练卷 高三英语试卷 命题人：朱芝君 考试时间:90分钟 总分：120分 阅读理解 As the world prepares to mark the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day on March 8,2010, a new report details the progress and challenges girls face in getting an education. The report—from the Education for All Fast Track Initiative—highlights the importance of girls? education for economic and social development. It follows progress in Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea, Mauritania, Mozambique and Niger. Prema Clarke, author of Fast-tracking Girls? Education, says, “Progress for girls? education is that they can leave their homes, leave their families and come to a place to study and to learn. And that?s a big achievement because otherwise these girls have to stay at home, looking after their brothers and sisters, doing the cooking or doing the cleaning.” She says progress toward the Millennium Development Goals and those of Education for All is “allowing and enabling girls and forcing countries to look at this issue(问题)and to ensure that interventions(干预)help girls attend school.” Benefits Improving education for girls brings many benefits, says Clarke. “It means that girls can then enter the workforce. They can look after their own families much more effectively. They can prevent child death rate. They can educate their own girl children when they begin to expand their own families.” Studies show that having an educated female population helps to improve a country?s health and economic well-being. Warnings The report says, “In developing countries, too many girls are not in school, and many girls face continuing health risks and danger just walking to class.” “Especially in the fragile and post-conflict countries and in many of the African countries, this is a real issue，” she says. Till now, the interventions have been so focused on providing schooling and providing teachers, etc. And now I think there is much more expanded focus on looking at specific communities of girl