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s passage ?( )A To give the write’s opinion about long bus trips B To persuade you to take a long bus trip C To explain how bus trips and television shows differ D To describe the billboards along the road The write of this passage would probably favor ( )A bus drivers who weren’t reckless B driving alone C a television set on the bus D no billboards along the road The writer feels long bus rides are like TV shows because ( )A the mercials both on TV shows and on billboards along the road are fun B they both have a beginning ,a middle ,and an end , with mercials in betweenC the drives are always reckless on TV shows just as they are on busesD both travelling and watching TV are not excitingThe writer thinks that the end of the ride is somewhat like the beginning because both are ( )A exciting B fortable C tiring D boring Passage twoEducating 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 ,provides guideposts that point to an explanation for why so many girls are deprived of an education Parents in lowine countries fail to invest in their daughters because they do not expert them to make an economic contribution to he 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 kept at home to do housework while their brothers are sent to schoolthe prophecy bees selffulfilling ,trapping women in a vicious circle 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 education and healthy . The vicious circle is thus transformed into a virtuous circle. Few will dispute that education women has great social it has enormous economic advantages as well .Most obviously ,there is the direct effect of education on the wages of fem