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  3. A. improper B. before C. demonstration D. issue E. illegalF. offer G. interpret

A. improper B. before C. demonstration D. issue E. illegalF. offer G. interpret

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问题 A. improper B. before C. demonstration D. issue E. illegal
F. offer G. interpretation H. entitled I. draft J. since
K. authorized L. that M. makes N. inference O. sided
    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 tightening of legal controls over the press, Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a 【C1】______bill that will propose making payments to witnesses【C2】______and will strictly control the amount of publicity that can be given to a case【C3】______a trial begins.
    In a letter to Gerald, Chairman of the House of Commons Media Select Committee, Lord Irvine said he【C4】______with a committee report this year which said that self-regulation did not【C5】______sufficient control. Publication of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a storm of media protest when he said the【C6】______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【C7】______ the European Convention of Human Rights legally binding in Britain, laid down that everybody was【C8】______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【C9】______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【C10】______witnesses might be encouraged to exaggerate their stories in court to ensure guilty verdicts. [br] 【C9】
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答案 D
解析 名词词义题。题意：“在West被判10年徒刑后，证人酬金成为热点问题。”issue：热点问题，关注焦点，如：make an issue引起争端。
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