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University Entrance Exam --> Exercise --> Gap filling
Choose the word or phrase that best fits the blank space in the following passage:
British television is the big success story of the post war year. Little (1)............... than a limited experiment before the war. It blossomed in the years following 1945. In 1955, commercials television began. Today, 90% of the population have television in their home. In 1960, a committee of inquiry was (2)............... up, under the chairmanship of Sir Harry Pilkington, to investigate the working of broadcasting. The Pilkington Report, (3)............... in 1962, had this to say: "Television has been (4)............... a mirror of society, but the metaphor, however striking, wholly misses the major issue of the responsibility of the broadcasting authorities. For, if we consider the aspect of this (5)..............., what is the mirror to reflect? Is it to reflect the best or the (6)............... in us? One cannot escape the question by saying that it must do both: one must ask then if it is to present the best or the worst with complete indifference and no comment. Television (7)............... not, and cannot, merely reflect the moral standards of society. It must affect (8)............... either by changing or by reinforcing them". All broadcasting, and television particularly should be ready and anxious to experiment, to show (9)............... new and unusual, to give hearing at dissent. Here, broadcasting must be most willing to (10)............... mistakes; for if it does not, it will make no discoveries.
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