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  3. The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent eases【C1】______the t

The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent eases【C1】______the t

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问题     The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent eases【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.
【C12】
选项 A、better than
B、other than
C、rather than
D、sooner than
答案C
解析 从文章内容来看，是法官拥有对隐私控制的解释权还是国会拥有对隐私控制的解释权是争议的核心问题，因而法官和国会是互相对立的关系，两者只能取其一。所给四个选项中只有rather than(……而不是)表达了这样的意思。other than是强干扰项，它表达的意思是“除了……还”，包括其后的名词，不表示排除。
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