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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 16with 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 1，700people 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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