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The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases 21 the trial o

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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 21 the trial of Rosemary West.
    In a significant 22 of legal controls over the press, Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a 23 bill that will propose making payments to witnesses 24 and will strictly control the amount of 25 that can be given to a case 26 a trial begins. In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons media select committee, Lord Irvine said he 27 with a committee report this year which said that self-regulation did not 28 sufficient control.
    29 of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a 30 of media protest when he said the 31 of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges 32 to Parliament. The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which 33 the European Convention on Human Rights legally 34 in Britain, laid down that everybody was 35 to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families. "Press freedoms will be in safe hands 36 our British judges," he said.
    Witness payments became an 37 after West was sentenced to 10 life sentences in 1995. Up to 19 witnesses were 38 to have received payments for telling their stories to newspapers. Concerns were raised 39 witnesses might be encouraged to exaggerate their stories in court to 40 guilty verdicts.
选项 A、authorized
B、credited
C、entitled
D、qualified
答案C
解析 此题属于词语搭配题。选项[A]authorized表示“授权”，用法为authorize sb．to dosth．，例如：authorize the man to act as chairman。选项[B]credited表示“信赖，相信”，用法为credit sb．with sth．，例如：Please credit me with honesty．(请相信我是诚实的。)选项[C]entitled表示“赋予，使…具有(某)权利”，用法为entitle sb．to sth．／to do sth．，例如：You are entitled to a rest．又如：You are entitled to try once more．选项[D]qualified表示“赋予(某人)资格”，用法为qualify sb．for／as sth．或qualify sb．to do sth．，例如：Knowledge alone doesn’t qualify you to teach．本题后面是to privacy，即介词to+名词，故选项[C]符合本题要求，是正确答案。全句可译为：大法官声明，人权法案的采用将使欧洲人权公约在英国也具有约束力；它明确规定每个人都有隐私权，公民可以用法律来保护自己和他的家人。
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