填空题 Some poor adults do not look for jobs for a variety of personal reasons: they are sick, they do not have any motivation (动力). They have family problems, or they do not believe that they can find a job. 1 Many poor adults never went to high school. Therefore, when they look for jobs, they have few skills that they can offer.

• A. At the present time, the government thinks it can reduce poverty in the country in the following ways.
• B. However, if these people had stable jobs, they could have an acceptable standard of living.
• C. Other poor people look for a job but cannot find one.
• D. In 1975 over 18million people in the United States received Welfare.
• E. As the general standard of living in the country rises, the poverty line does, too.
• F. Some economists are looking for better solutions to the poverty problem.