大学英语四级选词填空练习四.docVIP

CET- 4选词填空练习（四） 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 the