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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 o

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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.
选项 A、as to
B、for instance
C、in particular
D、such as
答案D
解析 such as此题属于语意搭配题。选项[D]such as可指对上文的举例说明，表示“像那样的”，as后接名词，例如：I visited several cities such as Shanghai，Beijing and Guangzhou．也可分开用，即such．．．as，例如：students such as these(=such students as these)。空格后的thetrial of Rosemary West(对Rosemary West的审判一案)是对空格前的prominent cases(重大案件)的举例说明，因此[D]符合上下文的意思，是正确答案。选项[A]as to表示“关于，至于”，例如：As to money，he is indifferent．在wh-从句或短语前的as to可省略，例如：She was at a loss(as to)what to say．选项[B]for instance表示“例如”，放在句子中间时，前后常有逗号隔开，例如：There are rare animals in Australia，for instance，koalas and duckbills．(澳洲有稀有动物，例如考拉和鸭嘴兽。)选项[C]in particular表示“特别”，相当于especially，例如：This boy student，in particular，is good at playingbasketball．全句可译为：政府将禁止报界买断卷入非常惹人注目的案件的证人而付给证人报酬的这种行为，如Rosemary West一案。
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