歷年考研英語閱讀理解1996年02

[00:03.80]1996 Passage2 [00:07.54]With the start of BBC World Service Television, [00:11.17]millions of viewers in Asia and America [00:14.19]can now watch the Corporation's news coverage, [00:17.51]as well as listen to it. [00:19.94]And of course in Britain listeners and viewers [00:23.27]can tune in to two BBC television channels, [00:27.19]five BBC national radio services [00:30.33]and dozens of local radio station. [00:33.87]They are brought sport, comedy, drama, music, [00:38.41]news and current affairs, [00:40.49]education, religion, parliamentary coverage, [00:44.23]children's pragrammes and films [00:46.62]for an annual licence fee [00:48.43]of 83 pounds per household. [00:51.86]It is a remarkable record, [00:53.66]stretching back over 70 years [00:56.48]--yet the BBC's future is now in doubt. [01:00.41]The Corporation will survive [01:02.00]as a publicly-funded broadcasting organization, [01:05.53]at least for the time being, but its role, [01:08.86]its size and its programmes are now the subject [01:12.25]of a nation-wide debate in Britain. [01:15.28]The debate was launched by the Government, [01:17.81]which invited anyone with an opinion of the BBC [01:21.55]--including ordinary listeners and viewers [01:24.88]--to say what was good or bad about the Corporation, [01:28.92]and even whether they thought it was worth keeping. [01:32.76]The reason for its inquiry [01:34.68]is that the BBC’s royal charter [01:37.20]runs out in 1996 and it must decide [01:41.04]whether to keep the organization as it is, [01:44.07]or to make changes. [01:46.48]Defenders of the Corporation [01:48.40]--of whom there are many [01:50.32]--are fond of quoting the American slogan [01:53.24]"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." [01:56.47]The BBC "ain't broke", they say, [01:59.60]by which they mean it is not broken [02:02.64](as distinct from the word 'broke', [02:04.96]meaning having no money), [02:06.77]so why bother to change it? [02:09.69]Yet the BBC will have to change, [02:12.72]because the broadcasting world around it is changing. [02:16.56]The commercial TV channels [02:18.58]--ITV and Channel 4-- were required [02:22.05]by the Thatcher Government's Broadcasting Act [02:24.67]to become more commercial, [02:26.69]competing with each other for advertisers, [02:29.21]and cutting costs and jobs. [02:32.53]But it is the arrival of new satellite channels [02:35.56]--funded partly by advertising and partly [02:38.38]by viewers' subscriptions--which will bring about [02:41.28]the biggest changes in the long term.

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