首页
登录
职称英语
Low levels of literacy and numeracy have a damaging impact on almost every a
Low levels of literacy and numeracy have a damaging impact on almost every a
游客
2024-08-08
7
管理
问题
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 certain week in 1958 graphically illustrated the handicap of educational underachievement. The effects are seen in unemployment, family breakdown, 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 by the time they reached 37. Professor John Bynner, who carried out the research, said that today’s unqualified teenagers would have even greater problems because the supply of manual jobs had dried up.
Almost one in five of the 1,700 people interviewed for yesterday’s report had poor literacy skills and almost half struggled with numeracy, a proportion in line with other surveys for the Basic Skills Agency. Some could not read even from a child’s book, and most found difficulty with following written instructions.
Poor readers were twice as likely to be earning a low wage and four times as likely to live in a household where partner worked. Women in this position were five times as likely to be classified as depressed.
Alan Wells, the agency’s director, said, "The results emphasize the dangers of developing an underclass of excluded people, out of work, increasingly depressed and often labeled themselves as failures. There is a growing circle of marginalization, with the dice loaded against these people and their families. "
Only 300,000 people out of more than five million thought to have poor basic skills take remedial courses each year. Mr. Wells said that a "major catch-up initiative" would benefit society as well as the individuals involved.
"It is not true that 20 per cent have been getting nothing out of education in the last five years, but maybe 50 years," he said. "The long tail of under-achievement is something we have always had. "
The survey is part of the National Child Development Study, which has tracked 17,000 people at five-yearly intervals since 1958. The current study employed eight reading and nine mathematical tests of varying difficulty. They included the ability to read a Yellow Pages directory to find a plumber and measure the floor space of a room. [br] What can we infer from the third paragraph?
选项
A、Poor students often come from poor families.
B、Fewer jobs are available to the poor readers now than before.
C、Some researchers were once poor students at school.
D、School underachievers only have job chances before the age of 37.
答案
B
解析
从第三段today’s unqualified teenagers would have even greater problems because the supply of manual jobs had dried up可以推断现在的poor readers会面临比以前的人更严峻的就业形势。故选项B正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3711029.html
相关试题推荐
Lowlevelsofliteracyandnumeracyhaveadamagingimpactonalmosteverya
Lowlevelsofliteracyandnumeracyhaveadamagingimpactonalmosteverya
Lowlevelsofliteracyandnumeracyhaveadamagingimpactonalmosteverya
Thewholenationwasinthegreatimpactoftheearthquakeandthe______confus
Biogas:aSolutiontoManyProblemsInalmostalldevelopi
Lowlevelsofliteracyandnumeracyhaveadamagingimpactonalmosteverya
Lowlevelsofliteracyandnumeracyhaveadamagingimpactonalmosteverya
Lowlevelsofliteracyandnumeracyhaveadamagingimpactonalmosteverya
Biogas:aSolutiontoManyProblemsInalmostalldevelopin
Biogas:aSolutiontoManyProblemsInalmostalldevelopin
随机试题
TheCaseforKillingMyMotherA)Mymotherwantedtodie,but
TheUSCongressA)TheUScongressisthelegislativebranchofthefeder
你认为一种科学的备课方法是什么?
下列各项中,不符合内部牵制的要求的是()。A、出纳人员管票据 B、出纳人员
在图D-4中,已知:R为4Ω,XL为9Ω,XC为6Ω,电源电压U为100V,试
如图所示,工厂生产的模具是一个将底面半径为6厘米、高为10厘米的圆柱体切去一部分
若美元的利率为5%,日元的利率为3%,则根据抛补利率平价理论,远期美元(
根据民事法律制度的规定,下列情形中,可导致诉讼时效中止的是()。A.债权人向人民
某水泥项目竣工环境保护验收污染物监测期间,核查人员在中控室记录了生产装置的小时原
脑栓塞的临床表现
最新回复
(
0
)