1. Most 11-year-olds are not encouraged to develop reading skills; a small but significant number are illiterate. 大多数11岁的儿童没有被鼓励去培养阅读技能。有为数不多、但足以引起人们注意的数目的儿童是文盲。
2. Nearly a billion people are illiterate. 有近10亿人是文盲。
3. Try to imagine your life being illiterate. 试想一下文盲的生活。
4. Many countries depend on the efforts of people who offer their time to help illiterate individuals. 许多国家依赖于人们的努力,他们贡献自己的时间来帮助文盲。
5. In the late 1970s, the infant mortality rate for the children of illiterate mothers was around 110 deaths per thousand live births. 在1970年代后期,在文盲母亲所生的孩子中,婴儿死亡率约为每1000名活胎婴儿中有110个夭折。