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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问题     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.
【C5】

选项 A、publicity
B、penalty
C、popularity
D、peculiarity

答案A

解析 考查名词辨析。从结构上看,空格处填入的名词,既是control的宾语,又是that引导的定语从句修饰的先行词,即符合give sth.to a case的搭配。符合这两个要求的只有选项A.publicity,give publicity to sth.“宣扬/公布某事”。整个句子大意为:草案提议对报界付款给证人的做法定为非法,并严格控制案件的公开程度。penalty“惩罚”,popularity“流行”,peculiarity“古怪”,与题意无关。
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