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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] 【C11】
选项 A、translation
B、interpretation
C、exhibition
D、demonstration
答案 B
解析 此处指对某方面法律条文的解释，所以选interpretation。translation 翻译；exhibition 展览；demonstration 证明，论证，都不合文义。
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