Recently the attack on illiteracy has been stepped up.A world plan has been drawn up by a committee of UNESCO experts in Paris,as part of the UNESCO Nations Development Decade,and an international conference on the subject has also been held.UNESCO stresses that functional literacy is the aim.People must learn the basic skills of responsible citizenship:the ability to read notices,newpapers,timetables,letters,pricelists,to keep simple records and accounts,to sort out the significance of the information gathered,and to fill in forms.
The major areas of illiteracy are in Asia,Africa,and Central and South America there are at least one hundred million illiterates,comprising 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 the list.
1.The figure of world illiteracy was obtained by _____.
a.an committee of UNESCO
b.experts in Paris
c.an international organization
d.none of these
2.Studying carefully the clues in the passage,we learn that the total population of Africa is _____.
a.approximately seven hundred million
b.approximately one hundred and twenty-five million
c.approximately eight or eight point five thousand million
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