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考研英语核心词汇速成胜经Unit 37 一、 真题文章（1996年Text 2） With the start of BBC World Service Television, millions of viewers in Asia and America can now watch the Corporations news coverage, as well as listen to it. And of course in Britain listeners and viewers can tunein 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 pounds per household. It is a remarkable record, stretchingback 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 debatein Britain. The debate was launchedby 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 charterruns 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 aint broke, dont fix it. The BBC ain t broke , they say, by which they mean it is not broken (as distinctfrom 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 commercialTV channels---ITV and Channel 4---were required by the Thatcher Governments 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 br