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Low levels of literacy and numeracy have a damaging impact on almost every aspect of adults, according to a survey published yes
Low levels of literacy and numeracy have a damaging impact on almost every aspect of adults, according to a survey published yes
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2013-01-25
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问题
Low levels of literacy and numeracy have a damaging impact on almost every aspect of adults, according to a survey published yesterday, which offers (1)_____ of a developing underclass. Tests and (2)_____ with hundreds of people born in a week in 1958 graphically illustrated file (3)_____ of educational underachievement. The effects can be seen in unemployment, family (4)_____, low incomes, depression and social inactivity.
Those who left school at 16 with poor basic skills had been employed for UP to four years less than good readers (5)_____ they reached 37. Professor John Bynner, of City University, who carried the research, said that today’s (6)_____ teenagers would even encounter greater problems because the supply of (7)_____ jobs had shrunk.
Almost one fifth of the 1,700 people interviewed for yesterday’s report had poor literacy and almost half (8)_____ with innumeracy, a proportion (9)_____ other surveys for the Basic Skills Agency. Some could not read a child’s book, and most found difficult (10)_____ written instruction.
Poor readers were twice as likely to be a low wage and four times likely to live in a household where partners worked. Women in this (11)_____ were five times as likely to be (12)_____ depressed, (13)_____ both tended to feel they had no control over their lives, and to trust others (14)_____.
Those who had low literacy and numeracy were seldom (15)_____ in any community organization and less likely than others to (16)_____ in a general election. There had been no (17)_____ in the literary level of (18)_____.
Alan Wells, the agency’s director, said: "The results emphasize the dangers of developing an underclass people, who were out of work, (19)_____ depressed and often labeled themselves as (20)_____. There is a circle of marginalization, with the dice against these people and their families."
选项
A、improvement
B、advancement
C、development
D、increase
答案
A
解析
考查名词辨析。此处指文化水平的提高,improvement为最佳答案。advancement"前进,进步" development"发展";increase"(尤指数量上的)提高"。
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考研英语一
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