In Britain today every household with a TV set must, by law, pay for a license which costs about the same for a year as a popular newspaper every day. A few people including those with noncolour TV pay less. ____ . Another important source is the selling of its productions to other broadcasting stations.
A) The BBC enjoyed a monopoly until 1954.
B) Unlike the press the BBC has rarely been accused of being partial.
C) The new payments are mainly compulsory subscription to the BBC, which derives nearly all of its funds from this source.
D) News programs and films still attract the largest audience.
E) Since the 1970s most British households have had TV sets able to receive channels.
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Nineteenth-century liberals had confidence in science. Not only did science deliver
technological and material progress, but it also confirmed liberals’ faith in the power of human
reason to uncover and command the laws of nature. ---- Evolutionary theory, psychology and social sciences all introduced visions of humanity that were sharply at odds with conventional liberal wisdom. At the same time, artists and intellectuals mounted their own revolt against nineteenth-century conventions. Morals,
manners, institutions, and traditions: all established values and assumptions were under
question.
A) Geologists have always challenged the Biblical account of creation.
B) These upheavals in the world of ideas unsettled older conceptions of individuality.
C) Towards the end of the century, however, scientific developments defied these expectations.
D) The scientists of the time held the view that the world had been formed over millions of years.
E) The implications of Darwin’s writings went far beyond the domain of the evolutionary sciences.
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