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.