Вопрос № 857130 - Английский язык

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Radio is one of 1_______ mass media. Radio 2_______ news, discussions, interviews, description of sport events, drama, religious programmes, music, and advertising.
There is at least one 3_______ in every country in the world, and altogether there are more than 25,000 stations all over the world. Radio stations 4_______ with one another.

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National radio stations broadcast music, sports and news programmes.
TV AND RADIO
1. There are two publicly-founded television channels in GB: BBC1 and BBC2. BBC1 is the main television channel. Its programmes are mostly general interest programmes and broadcast comedy and entertainment programmes, films and children's programmes. BBC2 has more serious programmes and news features. There is a break for advertisements about every 15-20 minutes.
2. National radio in the United Kingdom is controlled by the BBC, and listeners can choose between five stations. Radio 1 is a rock and pop-music station. Radio 2 plays light music and comedy. Radio 3 plays classical music, and Radio 4 has news programmes, drama and general interest programmes. Radio 5 Live offers reports on sport.
3. The Independent Television Commission is responsible for looking after the regional independent TV companies who broadcast their own programmes and those they have bought from other regions. There are 3 independent channels (Channel 3, 4, 5) which are financed by advertising. People can also prefer to pay for satellite and cable stations.
4. TV and radio are also two of the main teaching channels used by the Open University. This "university of the air" allows many thousands of students to study at home for degrees they never would have obtained in the main educational system. They also have to do without sleep as most of their programmes are broadcast early in the morning or late at night.

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Before the invention of radio, it was almost 1_______ to communicate over large 2_______. The only way to communicate with people far away was 3_______ a message or a letter with a person. People lit fires on hills as a signal to 4_______, but it wasn’t a very good way of communicating. It was very difficult to find out what was happening in distant places and news often took weeks or even months to travel around the world.

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The invention that swept the world and changed leisure habits for countless millions 1_______ by Scottish-born electrical engineer John Logie Baird. It was television.
It had been realized for some time that 2_______ could be converted into 3_______ impulses, making it possible to transmit such 4_______ over a distance and then reconvert them into light.

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The name electricity came from the Greek word for amber and 1_______ by Elizabeth I’s physician William Gilbert who was among those 2_______ noticed that amber had the power to attract light objects after being rubbed. In the 3_______ century such great names as Michael Faraday, Humphry Davy, Alessandro Volta and Andre Marie Ampere all did 4_______ work on electricity.

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As you know personal computers use a lot of power. In fact, with their printers and monitors, computers in the USA use each year as much electricity as the whole state of Oregon. Not to waste electricity, new ‘green’ computers are being developed by more than a hundred personal computer firms in the USA. When left on but unused for more than a few minutes, they go down to a standby, using 80 per cent less energy. At a command the PCs return to full power.
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How much electricity do the computers in the USA use every year?