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The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases【C1】______ the
The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases【C1】______ the
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2015-03-26
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The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases【C1】______ the trial of Rosemary West.
In a significant【C2】______ of legal controls over the press, Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a【C3】______ bill that will propose making payments to witnesses【C4】______ and will strictly control the amount of【C5】______ that can be given to a case【C6】______ a trial begins.
In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons media select committee, Lord Irvine said he【C7】______ with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not【C8】______ sufficient control.
【C9】______ of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a【C10】______ of media protest when he said the【C11】______ of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges【C12】______ to Parliament.
The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which【C13】______ the European Convention on Human Rights legally【C14】______ in Britain, laid down that everybody was【C15】______ to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families.
"Press freedoms will be in safe hands【C16】______ our British judges," he said.
Witness payments became an【C17】______ after West was sentenced to 10 life sentences in 1995. Up to 19 witnesses were【C18】______ to have received payments for telling their stories to newspapers. Concerns were raised【C19】______ witnesses might be encouraged to exaggerate their stories in court to【C20】______ guilty verdicts.
【C20】
选项
A、assure
B、confide
C、ensure
D、guarantee
答案
C
解析
词义辨析题。原文的意思是“人们担心这样会鼓励证人在法庭上夸大他们的陈述,以使别人被判罪”,assure意为“使某人相信”、“向……保证”,常用在assure sb.of sth.这一结构中,是一种口头保证;而ensure意为“确保得到”,指的是一种行为上的确保,而不是口头保证。
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