a billion people, two-thirds of them women, will enter the 21st century unable to read a book or write their names,” warns UNICEF in a new report, “The State of the World’s Children 1999.”
UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, points out that the illiterate “live in more desperate poverty and poorer health” than those who can read and write. The shocking number — 1 billion people illiterate — generated frightening headlines in major newspapers.
Poverty in the poorest countries is indeed something that ought to concern all of us, especially in a season when we pause to remember the less fortunate. But as usual, there’s more to this striking statistic than UNICEF tells us. Consider three points.
The Good News. Bad news sells, news watchers tell us. And 1 billion people unable to read and write — about 16 percent of world population — is certainly bad news. But let’s deconstruct the news.
First, UNICEF’s actual number is 855 million, a figure that did not appear in major newspapers. That’s still a large number, but it is 15 percent less than 1 billion.
The peculiar thing about the woman the Time Traveller saw in the beginning of this time travel is that she shot across the room "like a rocket."
<h3>The woman in "The Time Machine"</h3>
In the novel "The Time Machine," the Time Traveller begins his journey through time using a machine he has invented. When he starts the machine, he sees a woman, Mrs. Watchett, come into the room and walk across it. She does not seem to notice him.
However, from the Time Traveller's perspective, the woman seems to shoot across the room "like a rocket." That is because everything around him seems to speed up as the machine takes him through time.
With the information above in mind, we can select option C as the correct answer. The woman shot across the room "like a rocket."
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I don’t know try C maybe that’s the answer
