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 a mount 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.
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选项 A、tightening
B、intensifying
C、focusing
D、fastening

答案A

解析 从文章的第二句话,我们可以看出大致是要对新闻进行司法控制,“will strictly control”表明以后会逐渐严格起来。这里应该选择[A]项tightening,意为“上紧,固定,紧密”,同时也有“严厉起来”的意思。而[B]、[C]、[D]三项的含义分别是“加剧、集中、扎紧”,没有“逐渐严厉,严格起来”的意思。
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