英语翻译Eleven million U.S.adults – about one in 20 – have such

英语翻译
Eleven million U.S.adults – about one in 20 – have such poor English skills that they can’t read a newspaper,understand the directions on a bottle of pills or,in many cases,carry on a basic conversation,says a new federal(联邦的) survey that offers the first look in more than a decade at the USA’s “nonliterate”adult population.
Recent immigrants with limited or no English skills account for most of the group,adult education advocates say,but the survey suggests that even the average adult has low skills.
The first comprehensive look at adult literacy since a similar study in 1992,the National Assessment of Adult Literacy”released(发布)last December,found that 30 million or so adults,or 14%,have “below basic”skills.
Black adults made gains on each type of task tested.White adults made no significant changes except when it came to computing numbers,where they got better.Latinos (拉丁美洲人) showed sharp declines in their ability to handle text and documents.The results are based on a sample of more than 19 ,000 adults,age 16 or older,living in homes,college housing or prisons.
Survey concluded that about 11 million adults are “nonliterate” in English,including 4 million who probably can’t speak English and 7 million who can’t answer basic written questions.
We remain concerned that the numbers are so high,” said Leslie Burger of the American Library Association.She and others said the high number of non-literate adults is a function of increased immigration in the past decade.The non-literate population includes adults who may be able to read and write-even at high levels-in another language.
“It’s really hard to have a well educated and highly intellectual population of children if they go home to parents who do not have adequate readihg skills,”,said Dale Lipschultz,presidents of the National Coalition for Literacy.

逾十年来的第一份对美国现有的成人‘文盲’人口的联邦新调查报告显示,有一千一百万的美国成年人（约总人口二十分之一）拥有很差的英文水平,他们不会阅读报章,看不懂药罐上的使用说明,甚至有很多无法用英语进行基本交谈的例子.倡导成人教育的人士认为这些人群大多数是略懂或不懂英语的新移民,但该调查却觉得甚至一般成年人的英语能力也不行.
自1992年开展过类似的研究以来,这是第一次全面审视成年人的读写能力；去年12月发布的“全国成人读写能力评估”报告发现有大约三千万成人,或14%总人口的英语技能低于基础水平.
黑成年人在各种测试中的成绩有所提高.除了在数字计算方面显得较好以外,白人则没有显著的改变,而拉丁美洲人对处理文本与文件的能力却大幅下降.这个结果是基于生活在一般家庭、学院住房或监狱里的逾一万九千名超过16岁的成年人的调查样本.
该调查的结论认为有一千一百万成年人是英文‘文盲’,其中有四百万人可能不会说英语,另外的七百万人无法回答基本书面问题.
美国图书馆协会的Leslie Burger 说：“对于如此高的数字我们感到忧心忡忡”；她和其他人都认为这是过去十年来移民增加的原因造成的.这些文盲成年人中有些是拥有高水平阅读与书写另一种语言能力的.
国家扫盲联盟的主席,Dale Lipschult说：“如果家里的父母没有足够的阅读能力,我们真的很难拥有一群教育良好及高智商的儿童人口”.