Illiteracy

摘要

I’ve written this article and you’re reading it. So we are members of the same club. We’re both literate—we can read and write. And we both probably feel that literacy is essential to our lives.But millions of people all over the world are illiterate.Even in industrialised Western countries,such as the UK and the USA,approximately 20 percent of the population have ‘low literacy levels’.But what exactly does that mean?