2. 外语
  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.
【C2】
选项 A、tightening
B、intensifying
C、focusing
D、fastening
答案A
解析 本题的考点是词汇。本题需要考生对四个选项中的四个动名词的用法进行辨析；选项B特指感情、数量等方面的增加，它一般和control是不搭配的。选项C表示“集中于”，意味着要忽视别的方面。它和空格后面的controls无法搭配，因为文章中除了政府要禁止付钱收买证人的做法之外，没有提到别的情况，因此选项C是不合适的。选项D后接的是具体的名词，一般不修饰抽象名词，所以也可以排除。
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