The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases【C1】______ the

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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 draft bill that will propose making payments to witnesses【C3】______ and will strictly control the amount of【C4】______ that can be given to a case before a trial begins.
    In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons media select committee, Lord Irvine said he【C5】______ with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not offer sufficient control.
   【C6】______ of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a storm of media protest when he said the 【C7】______ of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges【C8】______ to Parliament.
    The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which【C9】______ the European Convention on Human Rights legally【C10】______ in Britain, laid down that everybody was entitled to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families.
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选项 A、better than
B、other than
C、rather than
D、sooner than

答案C

解析 A项better than意为“很懂得,有头脑,明事理(而不至于)”;B项other than意为“除……以外”;C项rather than意为“而不是……”;D项sooner than意为“早于……”。
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