tailieunhanh - IELTS Academic Reading Sample 152 - Literate women make better mothers

Luyện tập với IELTS Academic Reading Sample 152 - Literate women make better mothers giúp các bạn hệ thống kiến thức đã học, làm quen với cấu trúc đề thi, đồng thời rèn luyện kỹ năng giải đề giúp bạn tự tin đạt kết quả cao trong kì thi sắp tới. Mời các bạn cùng tham khảo. | You spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26 which are based on Reading Passage 152 below. Literate women make better mothers Children in developing countries are healthier and more likely to survive past the age of five when their mothers can read and write. Experts in public health accepted this idea decades ago but until now no one has been able to show that a woman s ability to read in itself improves her children s chances of survival. Most literate women learnt to read in primary school and the fact that a woman has had an education may simply indicate her family s wealth or that it values its children more highly. Now a long-term study carried out in Nicaragua has eliminated these factors by showing that teaching reading to poor adult women who would otherwise have remained illiterate has a direct effect on their children s health and survival. In 1979 the government of Nicaragua established a number of social programmes including a National Literacy Crusade. By 1985 about 300 000 illiterate adults from all over the country many of whom had never attended primary school had learnt how to read write and use numbers. During this period researchers from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine the Central American Institute of Health in Nicaragua the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua and the Costa Rican Institute of Health interviewed nearly 3 000 women some of whom had learnt to read as children some during the literacy crusade and some who had never learnt at all. The women were asked how many children they had given birth to and how many of them had died in infancy. The research teams also examined the surviving children to find out how well-nourished they were. The investigators findings were striking. In the late 1970s the infant mortality rate for the children of illiterate mothers was around 110 deaths per thousand live births. At this point in their lives Those mothers who later went on to learn to read had a similar level of child .

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