2. 外语
  3. The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases 【21】______

The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases 【21】______

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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.
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选项 A、publicity
B、penalty
C、popularity
D、peculiarity
答案A
解析 根据段落大意选项。publicity宜传；公众的注意。B penalty惩罚。C popularity普及，流行；名气，人缘。D peculiarity独特，特质；奇特。
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