Reading & Use of English: Part 3
Word
formation and vocabulary (8 questions)
ACTIVITY 152:Read the text below.
Use the word given in capitals
to form a word (a noun, adjective or
adverb) that fits in the gap in the same line.
Then check the correct
answers.
TV companies lack
balance and fairness
The current problems over the truth and
of TV programmes
HONEST
are symptomatic of a deep
malaise
over how such values are
INTELLECT
judged. In universities, several generations of
students in media, cultural
studies and even
have
been taught the theory that there is no
JOURNAL
such thing as truth
or
in television products. These are all
ACCURATE
merely a
,
a spectacle, produced for audiences who decode
CONSTRUCT
and consume them
according to their own tastes and pleasures.
There is little
between an episode of a hospital drama and
DIFFER
the main evening
news bulletin. We have argued against this approach
to understanding
media. Yet the depth of the problem for the television
companies is
in that there are now even voices calling for the
APPEAR
of
the traditional principle of impartiality. TV companies should
ABANDON
understand that
principles such as balance and fairness are crucial to the
