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  3. The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases 【21】______ th

The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases 【21】______ th

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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.
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选项 A、present
B、offer
C、manifest
D、indicate
答案B
解析 此题属于语意搭配题。选项A present作动词时表示“赠送，呈现”，用法为present sb． with sth．或present sth，to sb．，例如：The boy presented the singer with a bunch of flowers．该选项与本题语法上不符，可排除。选项C manifest作动词表示“证明，表明"(show a feeling，attitude etc．)，例如：They have so far manifested a total indifferen
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