Reading passages

Eliminating poverty is largely a matter of helping 
children born into poverty to rise out of it. Once 
families escape from poverty, they do not fall back 
into it. Middle-class children rarely end up poor. 
The primary reason poor children do not escape 
from poverty is that they do not acquire basic 
mental skills . They cannot read, write, calculate 
or articulate. Lacking these skills, they cannot get 
or keep a well-paid job. The best mechanism for 
breaking these vicious circle is to provide the poor 
with better educational opportunities. Since 
children born into poor homes do not acquire
the skills they need from their parents, they must 
be taught these skills in school.
19- The writer makes the point that, once people 
have overcome poverty, ............. .
A) the skills of reading and writing cease to be 
important for them 
B) they cease to mix socially with the poor 
C) they soon learn to adopt middle-class manners 
and ways 
D) it is most unlikely that they will ever become 
poor again 
E) they become eligible for well-paid employment 
in industry 
20- According to writer, if poverty is to be 
overcome, ............. .
A) the only effective means for this would be to 
provide better education 
B) more well-paid jobs should be offered to the 
poor.
C) all children, regardless of their class should 
receive the same formal education 
D) middle-class children should be given better 
educational opportunities 
E) the education of children should be based on 

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mental skills 
21- The main argument of the passage is