Low levels of literacy (读写能力) and numeracy (计算能力) have a damaging impact on almost every aspect of adult life. Tests and intervi

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问题     Low levels of literacy (读写能力) and numeracy (计算能力) have a damaging impact on almost every aspect of adult life. Tests and interviews with hundreds of people born in a single week in 1958【C1】______  the handicap of educational underachievement. The【C2】______  were seen in unemployment, family breakdown, low incomes, depression and social inactivity.
    Those【C3】______  left school at 16 with poor basic skills had been employed for up to tour years less than good readers by the time they【C4】______  37. Professor John Bynner, of City University, said that today’s【C5】______  teenagers would【C6】______  even greater problems because the【C7】______  of manual jobs had dried up.
    Almost one in five of the 1,700 people interviewed had poor literacy skills and almost half struggled with numeracy, a proportion【C8】______  other surveys for the Basic Skills Agency. Some could not read aloud from a child’s book, and most found【C9】______  in following【C10】______  instructions.
    Poor readers were twice【C11】______  likely to be on a low wage and four times as likely to live in a household where【C12】______  partner w9rked. Women in this position were five times as likely to be【C13】______  as depressed,【C14】______  both sexes tended to feel they had no【C15】______  over their lives, and to be less trusting of【C16】______
    【C17】______  with low literacy and numeracy skills were【C18】______  involved in any community organization and much less likely than others to have voted in a general election. There had been no【C19】______  in the level of interviewees reporting problems since the【C20】______  was surveyed at the age of 21.
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选项 A、both
B、neither
C、all
D、no

答案B

解析 neither意为“两者都不”,所修饰的名词为单数。该句意为:(与正常人相比)读书能力差的人有2倍的可能性处于低收入水平,有4倍的可能性生活在配偶双方都不工作的家庭。
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