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  3. The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases【C1】______the t

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】______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.
【C12】
选项 A、better than
B、other than
C、rather than
D、sooner than
答案C
解析 本题的考点是词汇辨析。空格连接前后两部分：left to judges和to Parliament，二者描述的对象都是interpretation of private controls，因此二者只能选一个，空格处填入的词要表达出这种选择的关系。选项A和B表示的程度上的比较，而非选择。选项D“other than”可表示“不同于”，但用于文中表示的意思是“把隐私控制权留给法官不同于留给国会”，这个客观事实是不至于引起新闻界的抗议的。选项C是最恰当的答案，表示“把隐私控制权留给法官而不是留给国会”。
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