Paragraph Nine Parents in low-income countries fail to invest in their daughters becausethey do not expect them to make an economic contribution to the family: girlsgrow 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 whiletheir brothers are sent to school. 44. Girls are n__________in poor countries.
【正确答案】：neglected/ nobody
【题目解析】：本段介绍了贫困国家女孩的境遇。贫困国家的父母不会在女儿身上投资，因为他们不指望女儿给家庭做出经济贡献：女孩长大后只会嫁到别人家生儿育女。因此，人们认为女孩不如男孩有用，所以她们的兄弟上学的时候她们就待在家里做家务。整段大意就是贫困国家女孩被忽视，没有地位的境况。所以以字母n开头的词汇中，neglect这个动词的过去分词或者nobody这个名词最为合适。注：nobody作为名词，意为“无足轻重之人”。
