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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
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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2014-09-27
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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 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、Release
B、Publication
C、Printing
D、Exposure
答案
B
解析
Publication此题属于语意搭配题。选项[B]Publication表示“出版,发表”,即the act of making sth.known to the public,例如:the publication of the election results。上文提到了Irvine勋爵的一封信,本题所在的句子则提到了媒体抗议以后这封信就被公开发表了,因此[B]符合题意。选项[A]Release表示“释放”,例如:a release from jail;又如:release of gas。选项[C]Printing表示“印刷”。选项[D]Exposure表示“暴露”,尤指“故意揭发,揭穿”某件有损于个人或团体名誉的事情真相,特别是一些罪行、阴谋等,例如:the exposure ofpolitical corruption(政治腐败的揭发)。
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