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The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases 【21】______ th
The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases 【21】______ th
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2010-06-30
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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 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.
【22】
选项
A、tightening
B、intensifying
C、focusing
D、fastening
答案
A
解析
此题属于语意搭配题。选项A tightening表示“拉紧”,例如:tighten the rope;其引申义为to make a rule, law or system more strict例如:tighten(up on)measures/controls。由此可见,该选项可与下文中的controls构成动宾搭配。选项B intensifying表示“增强,变强” (increase in degree or strength),例如:intensify his efforts(加紧努力)。选项C
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