If policymakers hope to make faster progress in
improving economic performance, reducing poverty, and slowing 【M1】_________
population growth, they will have to go much farther in 【M2】_________
their efforts to involve women in economic development.
Women really contribute more in economic terms than is 【M3】_________
usually recognized. They account for over half the food
produced in developing world, even more in Africa; they 【M4】_________
constitute one fourth of the developing world's industrial labor
force; they carry the main responsibility for childcare and
household chores; they head one fourth and more of the families 【M5】_________
in many developing nations; and they usually fetch most of
the household's water and fuelwood.
Yet their contribution goes drastically underestimated,
partly because women's job often "does not count," and. partly 【M6】_________
because much of it is home-based. Unpriced, it is hard to value,
and being often immediately consumed, it quickly ceases to be
visible. Studies in Nepal and the Philippines suggest that when
the production of rural women is valued properly, in average 【M7】_________
they actually contribute about one half the family's income. 【M8】_________
Women could contribute far more to their own welfare and
to the economy if their opportunities to do were not so confined. 【M9】_________
The poor, male or female, suffer from limited access to
education and health care, information and technology, credit
and resources, even markets. But women also face additional
gender-related difficulties rooted in tradition—sometimes
codified into law and policy—and biology (the demands of
multiple pregnancies and the need to care for children). While
men normally go into the "outside" world, women often
lack in not only the chance to move "outside," but the resources 【M10】_________
to function at full effectiveness "inside"—at home.
【M1】
SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE
Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.
Bingley was punctual to his appointment; and he and Mr. Bennet spent the morning together, as had been agreed on. The latter was much more agreeable than his companion expected. There was nothing of presumption or folly in Bingley that could provoke his ridicule, or disgust him into silence; and he was more communicative, and less eccentric, than the other bad ever seen him. Elizabeth, who had a letter to write, went into the breakfast room for that purpose soon after tea.
But on returning to the drawing room, when her letter was finished, she saw, to her infinite surprise, there was reason to fear that her mother had been too ingenious for her. On opening the door, she perceived her sister and Bingley standing together over the hearth, as if engaged in earnest conversation; and had this led to no suspicion, the faces of both, as they hastily turned round and moved away from each other, would have told it all. Their situation was awkward enough; but hers she thought was still worse. Not a syllable was uttered by either; and Elizabeth was on the point of going away again, when Bingley suddenly rose and, whispering a few words to her sister, ran out of the room.
Jane could have no reserves from Elizabeth, where confidence would give pleasure; and instantly embracing her, she acknowledged, with the liveliest emotion, that she was the happiest creature in the world.