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It is estimated that some seven hundred million people--about half of the world’s population are unable to read and write, and there are probably two hundred and fifty million more people whose level of attainment is so slight that it barely outlives a literacy.Recently the attack on illiteracy (文盲) has been stepped up . A world plan has been drawn up by a committee of UNESCO experts in Paris, as part of the United Nations Development Decade, and an international conference on the subject has the aim. People must learn the basic skills of responsible citizenship: the ability to read notices, newspapers, timetables, letters, pricelists, to keep simple records and accounts, to sort out the significance of the information gathered, and to fill informs.The major areas of illiteracy are in Asia, Africa, and Central and South America. In Africathere are at least one hundred million illiterates, compromising(牵连) eighty to eighty-five per cent of the total population. In Europe the figure is about twenty-four million, most of them in Southern Europe, with Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Yugoslavia heading tl ,c list (the United Kingdom has about seven hundred thousand). The figure of illiteracy in Britain comprises ().

A. zero point one per cent of that of the illiteracy in the world
B. zero point two per cent of the world adult population
C. thirty-five per cent of Europe’s population
D. three point five per cent of that of the illiteracy in Southern Europe

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A. most
B. least
C. more
D. less

Sports and SexesIn sports the sexes are separate. (36) and men do not run or swim in the same races. Women are less strong than men. That (37) is (38) people say. Women are (39) "the weaker sex", or if men want to please them, "the fair sex". But boys and girls are taught (40) schools and universities. There are women (41) are famous prime ministers, scientists and writers. And women live longer than men. (42) European woman can expect (43) until the age of 74; a man only until he is 68. Are women’s bodies really weaker The fastest men can run a mile in (44) 4 minutes. The best women need 5 minutes. Women’s times are always slower than (45) , but some facts are a surprise. Some of the (46) women swimmers today are girls. One of them swam 400 metres (47) 4 minutes and 21.2 seconds when she was only 16. The first "Tartan" in films was (48) Olympic swimmer, Jonny Weissmuller. His fastest 400 metres was 4 minutes and 59.1 seconds, (49) is 37.9 seconds (50) than a girl 50 years later! This does not mean that women are (51) men (52) . Conditions are very different now, and sport is much (53) serious. It is (54) serious that some women are given hormone injections. At the Olympics a doctor has to check (55) the women are really women or not. It seems like that sport has many problems. Life can be very complicated when there are two separate sexes. 39().

A. call
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D. to call

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A. three
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C. five
D. six

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