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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.
【30】
选项 A、storm
B、rage
C、flare
D、flash
答案A
解析 此题属于语意搭配题。A storm表示“暴风雨”，可引申为“(喝彩、责难等)嘈杂声，骚动”(a situation in which people suddenly express very strong feelings about something that someone has said or done)，例如：a storm of applause/abuse/laughter。A 符合题意，是正确答案。选项B rage表示“狂怒，愤怒”，例如：fly into a rage；选项C flar
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