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Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
It is not easy to talk about the role of the mass media in this overwhelmingly significant phase in European history. History and news become (36) , and one’s impressions tend to be a mixture of skepticism and (37) . Television is one of the means by which these feelings are created and (38) -and perhaps never before has it served so much to connect different peoples and nations as in the (39) events in Europe. The Europe that is now forming cannot be anything other than its peoples, their cultures and national (40) . With this in mind we can begin to (41) the European television scene. In Europe, as elsewhere multi-media groups have been (42) successful groups which bring together television, radio, newspapers, magazines and publishing houses that work in (43) to one another.
Clearly, (44) .This alone demonstrates that the television business is not an easy world to survive in a fact underlined by statistics that show that out of eighty European television networks no less than 50% took a loss in 1989. Moreover, (45) .
Creating a "European identity" that respects the different cultures and traditions which go to make up the connecting fabric of the Old continent is no easy task and demands a strategic choice-that of producing programs in Europe for Europe. (46) which are different from our own.