The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people invo
【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.
【C1】
A.as to
B.for instance
C.in particular
D.such as
D
解析:四个选择项的含义分别是“关于、例如、特别是、例如”。这里表明的是prominent cases与the trial of Rosemary West之间的关系。可以看出,后者也是一个案件,应该是前者中的一个,所以可以排除[A]项,而[B]项for example经常在其后加“,”这里并没有“,”,所以要排除。从下文可以看出,payments to witness是一件很普通的事情,并不是仅仅出现在the trial of Rosemary West一案中,因此表示特定指示的[C]项也不合适。这里只能选择[D]项,表示例举。