Part Ⅱ Cloze Test
Directions:
For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked ［A］,［B］,［C］ and ［D］. Choose the best one and mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil. (10 points)
The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases 31 the trial of Rosemary West.
In a significant 32 of legal controls over the press. Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a 33 bill that will propose making payments to witnesses 34 and will strictly control the amount of 35 that can be given to a case 36 a trial begins.
In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons media select committee. Lord Irvine said he 37 with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not 38 sufficient control.
39 of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a 40 of media protest when he said the 41 of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges 42 to Parliament.
The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which 43 the European Convention on Human Rights legally 44 in Britain, laid down that everybody was 45 to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families.
"Press freedoms will be in safe hands 46 our British judges," he said.
Witness payments became an 47 after West was sentenced to 10 life sentences in 1995. Up to 19 witnesses were 48 to have received payments for telling their stories to newspapers. Concerns were raised 49 witnesses might be encouraged to exaggerate their stories in court to 50 guilty verdicts.
31．［A］as to ［B］for instance ［C］in particular［D］such as
32．［A］tightening ［B］intensifying ［C］focusing ［D］fastening
33．［A］sketch ［B］rough ［C］preliminary ［D］draft
34．［A］illogical ［B］illegal ［C］improbable ［D］improper
35．［A］publicity ［B］penalty ［C］popularity ［D］peculiarity
36．［A］since ［B］if ［C］before ［D］as
37．［A］sided ［B］shared ［C］complied ［D］agreed
38．［A］present ［B］offer ［C］manifest ［D］indicate
39．［A］Release ［B］Publication ［C］Printing ［D］Exposure
40．［A］storm ［B］rage ［C］flare ［D］
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