[填空题]The most common fault among poor readers is the habitual making of too many ______.

[填空题]The most common fault among poor readers is the habitual making of too many ______.

[填空题]The most common fault among poor readers is tile habitual making of too many ______.

[单项选择]In ten years, the living conditions of the poor have been improving—but not necessarily because of the UN’s goals.
Even at 70, Jiyem, an Indonesian grandmother, gets up in the small hours to cook and collect firewood for her impoverished household. Her three-year-old grandson is malnourished. Nobody in her family has ever finished primary school. Her ramshackle house lacks electricity; the toilet is a hole in the ground; the family drinks dirty water. Asked about her notion of well-being by researchers from Oxford University, Jiyem said, "I cannot picture what well-being means. "
The sort of deprivation Jiyem describes remains widespread. The United Nations reckons that in 2008 over a quarter of children in the developing world were underweight, a sixth of people lacked access to safe drinking water, and just under half used insanitary toilets or none at all. ^① But while these figures are disquieting, a smaller fraction of people were affected than
A. fed up with
B. satisfied with
C. burdened with
D. disappointed at

[单项选择]According to the news, most poor people cannot do all of the following EXCEPT
A. growing enough food.
B. feeding their families.
C. buying enough necessities.
D. feeding their fowl.

[单项选择]E
Names in English
In Britain most people have three names. They have a first name, a middle name, (1) a family name. People don’t use their (2) name much.
You call your friends or (3) you know well by the first name. (4) people never use Mr, Mrs, or Miss with their (5) names. You can’t say "Miss Bridget," for example. You can only (6) "Miss Green." Miss goes with the family name, (7) , not with the first name, Bridget.
British people say (8) first names first and their family names (9) . It’s not the same as in Chinese, (10) example—Chen Guoming; a Chinese student says his family name, Chen, first.


A. middle
B. family
C. first