文章长度：229 words 建议做题时间：7分钟实际做题时间：______ Low levels of literacy and numeracy have a damaging impact on almost every aspect of adult life, according to a survey published yesterday, which offers evidence of a developing underclass. Tests and interviews with hundreds of people born in a single week in 1958 1 illustrated the handicap of educational underachievement. The effects were seen in unemployment, low incomes, depression and social 2 .
Those who left school at 16 with poor basic skills had been employed for up to four years less than good readers at the time they reached 37. Professor John Bynner of City University, who 3 out the research, said that today’s 4 people would face even greater problems because the supply of manual jobs had 5 up. Poor readers were twice as likely to be on a low 6 and four times as likely to live in a household where neither partner worked. Women in this position were five times as likely to be classified as 7 , while both sexes tended to feel they had no control over their lives, and to be 8 of others. Those with low literacy and numeracy skills were seldom involved in any 9 organization and much less likely than others to have 10 in a general election. There had been no improvement in the level of interviewees since the sample was surveyed at the age of 21.
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E) kept F) vividly G) clearly H) community
I) inactivity J) respectful K) unqualified L) depressed
M) doubtful N) idle O) voted
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