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The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy

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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【C3】______bill that will propose making payments to witnesses【C4】______and will strictly control the amount of【C5】______that can be given to a case【C6】______a trial begins.
    In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons media select committee, Lord Irvine said be【C7】______with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not.【C8】______sufficient control.
  【C9】______of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a【C10】______of media protest when he said the【C11】______of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges【C12】______to Parliament.
    The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which【C13】______the European Convention on Human Rights legally【C14】______in Britain, laid down that everybody was【C15】______to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families.
    "Press freedoms will be in safe hands【C16】______our British judges." he said.
    Witness payments became an【C17】______after West was sentenced to 10 life sentences in 1995, Up to 19 witnesses were【C18】______to have received payments for telling their stories to newspapers. Concerns were raised【C19】______witnesses might be encouraged to exaggerate their stories in court to【C20】______guilty verdicts. [br] 【C12】
选项 A、better than
B、other than
C、rather than
D、sooner than
答案 C
解析 联系上下文，全题意思是“当Irvine 阁下说，包含了欧洲法规的对个人权力控制这方面的解释将归法官而不归议会时，引起了媒体的强烈抗议。”rather than 与其……不如……，不是……而是……，除了。符合文义。other than 除了……之外，不同于，非。有的词组形式上是比较级，但并不真正用来表示两个事物，而是构成了固定的表达法。例如：more than 不止；more than a little 十分，非常；no more than 不过，仅仅；more or less 大体上，或多或少；no more...than...与……同样不；no less than 不亚于；not less than 不少于；all the more 因而更知；other than 除了； rather than 而不是。
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