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We all share one room.
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Our simple home does not protect us from the weather completely. We have no windows.
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There is no electricity in our house.
We wash by hand in the river.
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We are hungry sometimes.
We cannot afford basic vaccinations.
Getting drinking water is often difficult.
Children are born at home; specialist care is too expensive.
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We can't afford to celebrate any festivals.
It is too expensive to send all the children in a family to school.
We never travel for pleasure.
We cannot afford to buy school books.
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We only have the clothes we are wearing now.
We never go to a dentist, optician or hair-dresser.
Access to telephone is very difficult.
We can't afford animals or machinery to help us with hard work and transport.
			
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air-conditioning and in winter we have i           to save money	We don't have a DVD player.	We live in an old block of flats in a suburb.	We are paying off the loan for our washing machine.
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We hardly ever eat in restaurants.	medical services like white fillings, better medical drugs or private hospital rooms.	We save money on soft drinks by drinking water only.	We can't buy special food or extra vitamins for our baby.
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We don't spend much money on birthday presents or festivals.	We can't afford music or language classes for our kids.	We go to libraries and rentals to save money on new books, magazines and CDs.	We don't travel abroad on holidays.
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We buy clothes in second-hand shops.	To save money, we have our hair cut at home.	We have old mobile phones.	We do not have a car.
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1. How many people in the world live on less than two dollars a day?
A. 15 %
B. 25 %
C. 40 %
Correct answer:
C. nearly 2.6 billion people out of the world's population of approximately 6 billion.
2. What does EXTREME POVERTY mean?
A. to have only one TVset
B. to live on less than one dollar a day
C. to be homeless
Correct answer: B. Today there are oround one billion people living in extreme poverty in the world.
3. Millions of women spend several hours a day
A. collecting water
B. repairing their cars
C. brushing their teeth
Correct answer: A. Many people in developing countries still do not have access to running water at home and have to walk many kilometres a day to get water.
4. How many people in the world live without electricity?
A. one person in ten
B. one person in seven
C. one person in four
Correct answer:
C. 1.6 billion people live without electricity out of the world's population of approximately 6 billion,
5. If you lived in Zambia, Angola, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Central African Republic or Sierra Leone, how long could you expect to live? What is the life expectancy in these countries?
Correct answer:
between 40 and 45 years
6. In Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal, how many people over 15 years old cannot read or write?
A. every second person
B. every third person
C. every fourth person
Correct answer:
A. Half of the population in these countries is illiterate.
7. While in Iceland there are 362 doctors per 100.000 people, in countries such as Tanzania, Malawi, Burundi, Ethiopia, Chad, Mozambique, Niger, Sierra Leone have:
A. from 50 to 67
B. from 20 to 37
C. 4 or less
Correct answer: C. 4 or less.
8. Millions of poor people live in SLUMS. What are slums?
A. special beaches where both fishing and swimming are allowed
B. new environment-friendly houses built especially for the poor
C. poor parts of cities without ony infrastructure, bad access to water, no toilets.
Correct answer:
C. You can find large slums in
Africa, Asia and South America.
9. In some countries, when a family is very poor and has nothing to eat, they often:
A. write a letter to their president
B. sell their daughter
C. go to Hollywood
Correct answer:
B. They marry off their daughters for money. This is called Child marriage or Early Marriage.
10. One of the causes of absolute poverty is NOT:
A. little or no education of the people
B. HIV/AIDS
C. spending to the maximum on your credit cord in expensive supermarkets.
Correct answer:
C. Going to expensive supermarkets cannot cause absolute poverty. If you are poor and do not go to school, it is difficult for you to change your life. If you are poor and you or someone from your family suffers from HIV/ AIDS, it affects all the family economically.
11. In 2005 there were only 55 Internet users per 1,000 people in:
A. India
B. Turkey
C. Mexico
Correct answer: A. India.
(Mexico -181, Turkey - 222)
12. In 2005, 487.2 million people in India lived
A. without electricity
B. alone in their house
C. in the capital
Correct answer:
A. Almost half of the population of India lived without electricity.
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