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
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W: Mm, as a matter of fact. I appreciate your help very much. But I don’t think it desirable. Mm... Do you have other suggestions I suppose...
M: What did you have in mind Alternatively, now just a moment, there’s another three-day trip going by train. That’s a tiny bit more expensive....
W: Yeah... how much is that one
M: That’s ＄100.
W: I think I’d prefer to go by train.
M: Right, now...
W: What about the accommodation that goes with that trip
M: Well, that is inclusive. It means it’s a three-star hotel, which is pretty good quality right in the center of town. It is what we call bed and breakfast though. Would that be all right
W: Oh, that would suit me fine, because I’d like to try some of that Scottish food.
M: Of course, so when would you like to go because this trip, the train, three days, it’s midweek only ... that would be Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday .
It was the night before the composition was due. As I looked at the list of topics(题目), "The Art of Eating Spaghetti (意大利面条) "caught my eyes. The word "spaghetti" brought back the (21) of an evening at Uncle Alien’s in Belleville (22) all of us were seated around the table and Aunt Pat (23) spaghetti, for supper. Spaghetti was an exotic (外来的) treat in (24) days. Never had I eaten spaghetti, and (25) of the grown-ups had enough experience to be good at it. What laughing (26) we had about the socially respectable method for moving spaghetti from plate to mouth. (27) ,I wanted to write about that, but I wanted to (28) it down simply for my own (29) , not for Mr. Fleagle, my composition teacher. As for him, I would write something else.
When I finished it the night was half gone and there was no (30) left to write a proper composition for Mr. Fleagle. There was no choice next morni
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