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 correct answer is A.
The sentence should be written like this: <span>Sadly, even after that water is found, only some of it's clean and safe enough to drink.
Because the sentence is saying "only some of IT IS clean and safe enough to drink," an apostrophe should be used.
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Explanation:
comply
[kəmˈplī]
VERB
complied (past tense) · complied (past participle)
(of a person or group) act in accordance with a wish or command.
"we are unable to comply with your request"
synonyms:
abide by · act in accordance with · observe · obey · adhere to · conform to · follow · respect · agree to · assent to · consent to · concur with/in · fall in with · acquiesce in · go along with · yield to · submit to · bow to · defer to · satisfy · meet · fulfill · measure up to
(of an article) meet specified standards.
"all secondhand furniture must comply with the new standards"
synonyms:
comply with · meet · fulfill · answer · conform to · match up to · measure up to · come up to · suffice · be good enough · fit/fill the bill · perfect · make the grade · cut the mustard
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