单词 | literacy rate |
释义 | > as lemmasliteracy rate C1. General attributive, as literacy rate, literacy skills, etc.Recorded earliest in literacy test n. at Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1900 [see literacy test n. at Compounds 2]. 1912 I. A. Hourwich Immigration & Labor iii. 70 The economic status of a people has a very decided effect upon the literacy rate. 1941 School Rev. 49 600 The evening junior college might send those seeking literacy skills to the proper agency. 1961 Ebony Apr. 27 (caption) She is a night class literacy teacher at Cleveland's East Technical High School. 1967 N.Y. Times 30 July 54/5 Migrants can obtain basic housekeeping, construction and literacy lessons. 1988 G. Northam Shooting in Dark (1989) x. 157 They run scruffy advice centres in church basements, organize literacy projects for the Manpower Services Commission and help ex-offenders. 1992 Economist 3 Oct. 79/1 Montagnard children, kept home to work the land, grow up unable to read in a country whose national literacy rate is 88%. 2002 Book Sept.–Oct. l11/1 Kids who go through what educators call strategic instruction show dramatic improvement in literacy skills. < as lemmas |
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