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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 t
The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases【C1】______the t
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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】______fter 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
考查动词辨析。guilty verdicts意为“(陪审团的)定罪决定”。此处意为“证人被鼓励在法庭上夸大事实,目的就为了一定罪”。assure“使人相信”,一般用于assure sb.of sth./assure sb.that。confide“吐露(内幕),托付”,与题意无关。guarantee“保证,担保”,但不符题意,保证有罪判绝不是证人能做到的。ensure表示努力推动或确保某事的发生,证人的目的就是想确保让被告得到定罪,符合题意,因此选C。
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