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The issue of illiteracy (widely publicized)
“Figures of 1998 show that 20% of the world population is illiterate ‖ from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ―Since 1983, more than 10 million Americans have reached the 12th grade without being able to read at a basic level. Over 20 million have reached their senior year unable to do basic math. Almost 25 million have reached 12th grade without knowing the essentials of U.S. history.‖
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What kind of a person is an illiterate? Person 1). having little or no education; 2). Showing a lack of familiarity with language or literature; 3). Showing a lack of particular field of knowledge (musically illiterate)
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Scan the following article and find out what is functional illiteracy, cultural illiteracy, and moral illiteracy. Three kinds of illiteracy 如何看待蒋海松机场吻别女友事件？ 美国新泽西州纽瓦克国际机场因为一名中国博士为 了和女友吻别违规闯入警戒线，导致该美国机场关 闭6小时，数千人的行程被耽误。事发之后，这名叫 蒋海松的新泽西州罗格斯大学分子生物学联合项目 二十八岁的博士研究生被逮捕，并将受到非法闯入 罪名的起诉。（消息来源《广州日报》）
Straight-A Illiteracy
高分低能 ; 全A文盲
James P. Degnan
By Maggie
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About the title straight
1.sick for five straight days; their fourth straight victory. (Uninterrupted; consecutive) 2. a straight answer. (Direct and candid) 3. The room is straight again. (Neatly arranged; orderly) 4. straight business dealings. (Showing or marked by honesty or fair-mindedness) 5. homosexual or straight (Heterosexual.) 6. Two straight whiskies, please. (Not mixed with anything else)
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How important is literacy?
--source: Illiterate America By Alan Caruba web posted February 5, 2001
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目前全球共有约8亿文盲，主要分布在印度、中国、 印度尼西亚、巴基斯坦、巴西、尼日利亚、埃及等 国。中国文盲总数高居世界第二位，仅次于印度。 世界上每10个文盲中就有一个以上是中国人。中国 90%的文盲分布在农村，一半文盲在西部地区，文 盲中七成是女性。
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illiteracy
illiterate illiterates literate literacy: Literacy is the ability to both read and write. 有读写能力
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Illiteracy and Kinds of Illiteracy
In 1930 the U.S. Bureau of the Census defined as illiterate any person over ten years of age who was unable to read and write in any language. By the next census (1940), however, the concept of ―functional‖ illiteracy was adopted, and any person with less than five years of schooling was considered functionally illiterate, or unable to engage in social activities in which literacy is assumed. by 1970, the U.S. Office of Education considered at least six years of schooling (and sometimes as many as eight) to be the minimum criterion for functional literacy. This crisis of education is manifested in three levels of illiteracy: functional illiteracy, cultural illiteracy, and moral illiteracy.