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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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、sketch
B、rough
C、preliminary
D、draft

答案D

解析 此题属于语意搭配题。选项D draft作名词时可表示“草稿,草案”,即sth.not yet finished例如:a draft for a speech; 又如: The plan is in draft.(那计划正在草拟中。)draft也可转化为动词,例如:to draft a plan/a bill。考生可能熟悉该词的以上两种词性,而本题则是要求填入一个能修饰名词的定语,于是很多考生错误地首先就把D 给排除了。事实上,draft可作为形容词使用,例如:a draft proposal;且bill后
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