单选题
Low levels of literacy and numeracy have a damaging impact on almost every aspect of adults, according to a survey published yesterday, which offers (1) of a developing underclass. Tests and (2) with hundreds of people born in a week in 1958 graphically illustrated file (3) of educational underachievement. The effects can be seen in unemployment, family (4) , low incomes, depression and social inactivity. Those who left school at 16 with poor basic skills had been employed for UP to four years less than good readers (5) they reached 37. Professor John Bynner, of City University, who carried the research, said that today's (6) teenagers would even encounter greater problems because the supply of (7) jobs had shrunk. Almost one fifth of the 1,700 people interviewed for yesterday's report had poor literacy and almost half (8) with innumeracy, a proportion (9) other surveys for the Basic Skills Agency. Some could not read a child's book, and most found difficult (10) written instruction. Poor readers were twice as likely to be a low wage and four times likely to live in a household where partners worked. Women in this (11) were five times as likely to be (12) depressed, (13) both tended to feel they had no control over their lives, and to trust others (14) . Those who had low literacy and numeracy were seldom (15) in any community organization and less likely than others to (16) in a general election. There had been no (17) in the literary level of (18) . Alan Wells, the agency's director, said: "The results emphasize the dangers of developing an underclass people, who were out of work, (19) depressed and often labeled themselves as (20) . There is a circle of marginalization, with the dice against these people and their families./
【答案解析】考查名词辨析与介词的搭配。首先注意所填词与with搭配，排除[A], investigation“调查，研究”虽与test语义并列，但多与of而不是with搭配；interview“采访，会见，面试”，interview with sb. “对某人进行采访”，符合语境；communication“交流，沟通”、conference“协商，会议”，这两个词虽然可与with搭配，但与进行调查(survey)与测试(test)时方式不符。
【答案解析】考查连接词辨析。四个短语都可以引导时间状语从句，the instant, the moment和the point均引导瞬间的时间，而文中是指“到三十七岁的时候”，所以应该用the time来引导，相当于when。
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】考核上下文语义衔接。文章主题是读写能力与算术能力偏低造成的不良影响，因此此处所指的 teenagers应该是low levels of literacy and numeracy，综合而言，即是“教育程度低的”，所以选[D] unqualified。illiterate“不识字的，未受过教育的”，没有包括算术能力低的，片面，所以排除；suffering“受苦的，生病的”与poor“贫穷的”均与语境不符。
【答案解析】考查形近词辨析。本题比较简单，四个形近词意思与搭配掌握即可作答。revlolve“围绕，旋转”，多与round搭配使用；dissolve“溶解，解散，解除”，及物动词，disolve sth. in sth. “将某物溶解于其他物主中”；resolve作“决心，决定”讲时与on搭配，作“解决”讲时为及物动词；involve常与in搭配，表示“牵涉，涉及，包括”。