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  3. With the start of BBC World Service Television, millions of viewers in Asia and America can now watch the Corporation’s news cov

With the start of BBC World Service Television, millions of viewers in Asia and America can now watch the Corporation’s news cov

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问题     With the start of BBC World Service Television, millions of viewers in Asia and America can now watch the Corporation’s news coverage, as well as listen to it. And of course in Britain listeners and viewers can tune in to two BBC television channels, five BBC national radio services and dozens of local radio station. They are brought sport, comedy, drama, music, news and current affairs, education, religion, parliamentary coverage, children’s programs and films for an annual license fee of ￡83 per household.
    It is a remarkable record, stretching back over 70 years—yet the BBC’s future is now in doubt. The Corporation will survive as a publicly-funded broadcasting organization, at least for the time being, but its role, its size and its programs are now the subject of a nation-wide debate in Britain.
    The debate was launched by the Government, which invited anyone with an opinion of the BBC—including ordinary listeners and viewers—to say what was good or bad about the Corporation, and even whether they thought it was worth keeping. The reason for its inquiry is that the BBC’s royal charter runs out in 1996 and it must decide whether to keep the organization as it is, or to make changes.
    Defenders of the Corporation—of whom there are many—are fond of quoting the American slogan. "If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it." The BBC "ain’t broke", they say, by which they mean it is not broken (as distinct from the word "broke", meaning having no money) ,so why bother to change it?
    Yet the BBC will have to change, because the broadcasting world around it is changing. The commercial TV channels—ITV and Channel 4—were required by the Thatcher Government’s Broadcasting Act to become more commercial, competing with each other for advertisers, and cutting costs and jobs. But it is the arrival of new satellite channels—funded partly by advertising and partly by viewers’ subscriptions—which will bring about the biggest changes in the long term.
What can we learn about BBC?
选项 A、BBC is a television channel.
B、Only Britain listeners and viewers can watch BBC.
C、People in China can watch BBC news.
D、Drama, music and education are all children’s programs
答案C
解析 选项C对应的是文章的第一段第一句，其中提到数以百万计的亚洲和美洲观众可以看BBC的新闻报道，因此在中国的人可以看BBC的新闻故C正确；选项A对应第一段的第一句和第二句，但是，这两句话中提到，观众可以看新闻，也可以听。第二句很清楚告诉我们，当地还有广播电台(local radio station)；选项B根据选项C的解释内容就可以排除掉了；选项D对应第一段最后一句话，文中提到BBC可以提供很多的节目，其中一个包括儿童节目。也就是说儿童节目是其中一种节目内容，和其他的节目形式比如戏剧、音乐等是并列关系，不是包含关系。
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