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  3. Low levels of literacy (读写能力) and numeracy (计算能力) have a damaging impact on almost every aspect of adult life. Tests and intervi

Low levels of literacy (读写能力) and numeracy (计算能力) have a damaging impact on almost every aspect of adult life. Tests and intervi

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问题     Low levels of literacy (读写能力) and numeracy (计算能力) have a damaging impact on almost every aspect of adult life. Tests and interviews with hundreds of people born in a single week in 1958【C1】______  the handicap of educational underachievement. The【C2】______  were seen in unemployment, family breakdown, low incomes, depression and social inactivity.
    Those【C3】______  left school at 16 with poor basic skills had been employed for up to tour years less than good readers by the time they【C4】______  37. Professor John Bynner, of City University, said that today’s【C5】______  teenagers would【C6】______  even greater problems because the【C7】______  of manual jobs had dried up.
    Almost one in five of the 1,700 people interviewed had poor literacy skills and almost half struggled with numeracy, a proportion【C8】______  other surveys for the Basic Skills Agency. Some could not read aloud from a child’s book, and most found【C9】______  in following【C10】______  instructions.
    Poor readers were twice【C11】______  likely to be on a low wage and four times as likely to live in a household where【C12】______  partner w9rked. Women in this position were five times as likely to be【C13】______  as depressed,【C14】______  both sexes tended to feel they had no【C15】______  over their lives, and to be less trusting of【C16】______
    【C17】______  with low literacy and numeracy skills were【C18】______  involved in any community organization and much less likely than others to have voted in a general election. There had been no【C19】______  in the level of interviewees reporting problems since the【C20】______  was surveyed at the age of 21.
【C1】
选项 A、provided
B、illustrated
C、perceived
D、assumed
答案B
解析 该文主要讲述低水平的读写能力和计算能力对成年人生活的几乎各个方面都具有破坏性的影响。illustrate说明，阐明。该句意为：对几百名出生在1958年中一周之内的 100多人的测试和采访说明了缺乏教育带来的不利影响。provide提供，供应；perceive觉察；assume假定。
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