首页
登录
职称英语
The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy
The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy
游客
2023-11-19
56
管理
问题
The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent eases 【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 he 【C7】______ 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 【C10】______ a storm 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 【C13】______ of the Human Rights Bill, which makes 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 【C16】______ hands with our British judges," he said.
Witness payments became an issue 【C17】______ 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] 【C18】
选项
A、remarked
B、said
C、told
D、stated
答案
B
解析
词义辨析题之近义词。句意为“据说19个目击证人都曾收取报纸的费用,讲述自己的故事”。“据说”一词只能用be said to。remark、state、tell虽然有“说”的意思,但是不能表示“据说”。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3200714.html
相关试题推荐
Businessandgovernmentleadersalsoconsidertheinflationratetobeanim
Businessandgovernmentleadersalsoconsidertheinflationratetobeanim
Businessandgovernmentleadersalsoconsidertheinflationratetobeanim
Businessandgovernmentleadersalsoconsidertheinflationratetobeanim
Businessandgovernmentleadersalsoconsidertheinflationratetobeanim
Businessandgovernmentleadersalsoconsidertheinflationratetobeanim
Businessandgovernmentleadersalsoconsidertheinflationratetobeanim
Businessandgovernmentleadersalsoconsidertheinflationratetobeanim
Businessandgovernmentleadersalsoconsidertheinflationratetobeanim
Businessandgovernmentleadersalsoconsidertheinflationratetobeanim
随机试题
Domesticviolenceisaseriouscrimecausingserioussocialproblems.Itis
[originaltext]QuestionNo.1Obviously,Carolhasbeenunhappywithherpresent
A—lightgrayB—deepyellowC—darkbrownD—rust
(1)A不溶于水,又不溶于酸.A是__________. (2)B不溶
绝经后妇女发生骨质疏松症的主要原因是A.雄激素分泌增加 B.雌激素分泌不足
朱元璋颁布诏书,规定“佃户见田主不论齿序,并行以少长之礼;若在亲属,不拘主佃,止
住房抵押支持证券是把金融机构所持有的( )债权转化为可供投资者持有的住房抵押支
王阿姨患有糖尿病,但她对自己的疾病认知不足,既不注意锻炼,也不控制饮食,出现了严
百部偏于A.宣肺止咳 B.化痰止咳 C.润肺止咳 D.清肺止咳
在计算机内,多媒体数据最终是以()形式存在的。A.二进制代码 B.特殊的压缩
最新回复
(
0
)