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Part 5 Skimming and Scanning (Multiple Choice+Blank Filling)(每小题：1 分) Directions: Read the following passage or passages and then answer the questions. For the first 7 questions in each passage, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. For the remaining 3 questions in the same passage, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. Questions 1 to 10 are based on the same passage or dialog. Western Students Learn Chinese Through Television In an age when television is a vital entertainment medium, more and more people are using it as a study aid. In Britain, the Open University, founded in 1969, encourages home-based students to study for Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees using a combination of television and radio programmes and mail work, where students send in assignments to their instructors and have them returned after evaluation. The Open University has no formal entrance requirements for its students and is designed particularly for people who have missed out on a formal higher education because of lack of money or opportunity in the past. The system works very well in Britain; similar programmes operate in many other countries. Television learning is not limited to university level education, however. Courses that use educational television programmes as a component may cover a wide variety of subjects, from accounting and statistics to language study. Because so many people use television learning to help them improve their employment opportunities, most television learning courses are job-related in nature. Study programmes may include marketing and business management. Also, in countries such as Australia and New Zealand, language courses in Spanish, French, and Mandarin are also popular. Those who promote the televison courses talk of the opportunity it gives for people to learn in their own place, at their own pace, and in their own time. Business programmes are very popular around the worl