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2001年考研英语（一）试题 Section 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. [