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  3. The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases【B1】______the t

The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases【B1】______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【B1】______the trial of Rosemary West.
    In a significant【B2】______of legal controls over the press, Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a【B3】______bill that will propose making payments to witnesses【B4】______and will strictly control the amount of【B5】______that can be given to a case【B6】______a trial begins.
    In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons Media Select Committee, Lord Irvine said he【B7】______with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not【B8】______sufficient control.
    【B9】______of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a【B10】______of media protest when he said the【B11】______of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges【B12】______to Parliament.
    The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which【B13】______the European Convention on Human Rights legally【B14】______in Britain, laid down that everybody was【B15】______to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families. "Press freedoms will be in safe hands【B16】______our British judges," he said.
    Witness payments became an【B17】______after West was sentenced to 10 life sentences in 1995. Up to 19 witnesses were【B18】______to have received payments for telling their stories to newspapers. Concerns were raised【B19】______witnesses might be encouraged to exaggerate their stories in court to【B20】______guilty verdicts.
【B20】
选项 A、assure
B、confide
C、ensure
D、guarantee
答案C
解析 考查动词辨析。guilty verdicts意为“(陪审团的)定罪决定”。此处意为“证人被鼓励在法庭上夸大事实，目的就为了______定罪”。assure“使人相信”，一般用于assure sb．of sth．／assure sb．that。confide“吐露(内幕)，托付”，与题意无关。guarantee“保证，担保”，但不符题意，保证有罪判绝不是证人能做到的。ensure表示努力推动或确保某事的发生，证人的目的就是想确保让被告得到定罪，符合题意，因此选C。
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