2018年专升本英语完形填空模拟题

    The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases such as the trial of Rosemary West.

    In a significant 1 of legal controls over the press, Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a 2 bill that will propose making payments to witnesses illegal and will strictly control the amount of 3 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 4 with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not offer sufficient control.

    5 of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a storm of media protest when he said the 6 of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges rather than to Parliament.

    The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which European Convention on Human Rights legally binding in Britain, laid down that everybody was 8 to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families. "Press freedoms will be in safe hands with our British judges," he said.

    Witness payments became an 9 after West was sentenced to 10 life sentences in 1995.

    Up to 19 witnesses were said to have received payments for telling their stories to newspapers. Concerns were raised 10 witnesses might be encouraged to exaggerate their stories in court to ensure guilty verdicts.

    1. [A] tightening [B] intensifying [C] focusing [D] fastening

    2. [A] sketch [B] rough [C] preliminary [D] draft

    3. [A] publicity [B] penalty [C] popularity [D] peculiarity

    4. [A] sided [B] shared [C] complied [D] agreed

    5. [A] Release [B] Publication [C] Printing [D] Exposure

    6. [A] translation [B] interpretation [C] exhibition [D] demonstration

    7. [A] changes [B] makes [C] sets [D] turns

    8. [A] authorized [B] credited [C] entitled [D] qualified

    9. [A] impact [B] incident [C] inference [D] issue

    10. [A] what [B] when [C] which [D] that

    1---5: ADADB 6--10: BBCDD

部分内容来源于网络转载、学生投稿，如有侵权或对本站有任何意见、建议或者投诉，请联系邮箱（1296178999@qq.com）反馈。 未经本站授权，不得转载、摘编、复制或者建立镜像， 如有违反，本站将追究法律责任！