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The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases(1)_____ the tr
The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases(1)_____ the tr
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2013-11-10
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问题
The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases(1)_____ the trial of Rosemary West.
In a significant(2)_____ of legal controls over the press, Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a(3)bill that will propose making payments to witnesses(4)_____ and will strictly control the amount of(5)_____ that can be given to a case(6)_____ a trial begins.
In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons media select committee, Lord Irvine said he(7)_____ with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not(8)_____ sufficient control.
(9)_____ of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a(10)_____ of media protest when he said the(11)_____ of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges(12)_____ to Parliament.
The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which(13)_____ the European Convention on Human Rights legally(14)_____ in Britain, laid down that everybody was(15)_____ to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families.
"Press freedoms will be in safe hands(16)_____ our British judges," he said.
Witness payments became an(17)_____ after West was sentenced to 10 life sentences in 1995. Up to 19 witnesses were(18)_____ to have received payments for telling their stories to newspapers. Concerns were raised(19)_____ witnesses might be encouraged to exaggerate their stories in court to(20)_____ guilty verdicts.
(20)
选项
A、assure
B、confide
C、ensure
D、guarantee
答案
C
解析
原文的意思是“人们担心这样会鼓励证人在法庭上夸大其词,从而导致有罪的判决”,C项ensure意为“使……必然发生”,符合夸大其词必然会导致有罪的判决的逻辑。assure和guarantee都可表示“确保某事发生”,但宾语不能为guilty verdicts。confide“托付”。
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专业英语四级
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