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高考英语二轮复习英美外刊原创题训练 二十八 题源 The Daily Telegraph 每日电讯报 (December 29, 2022) 有删减 I 阅读理解 A The BBC is “rewriting British history to promote a woke agenda”, a group of the country’s leading academics has warned, as they cite multiple examples of “bias”(偏好) in its documentaries. A report said the BBC was failing in its duty of impartiality by allowing “politically motivated campaigners” to present “tendentious” views of British history as fact. Jeremy Black, the former professor of history at Exeter University, said the BBC was guilty of “systemic failure” through an inability to present a rounded picture of the past. The report was compiled by History Reclaimed, whose co-editors are David Abulafia and Robert Tombs, both of whom are professors emeritus at Cambridge University. The authors of the report, titled Can We Trust The BBC With Our History?, have called on the BBC to tighten its editorial guidelines and set up an advisory panel of historians to reduce “groupthink” among programme makers. Programmes highlighted include The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan, in which the comedian visits Freetown in Sierra Leone and discusses Britain’s role in the slave trade, without mentioning that the city, so-called because it was the destination of freed slaves, was set up by the British. The report also criticises Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson as well as a BBC Radio 4 documentary about Sarah Forbes Benetta, one of the only black women in Victorian high society. “In recent years, we have seen politically motivated campaigns to rewrite British history in a way that undermines the solidarity of our communities, our sense of achievement, even our very legitimacy,” said A spokesman for History Reclaimed “The BBC should never accept as fact arguments put forward by politically motivated campaigners. Regrettably, it seems that the BBC does not always respect the objectives set out in its charter and its claim to be strictly impartial.” Dr Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, director of the ant