2001年考研英语真题及解析.pdf

2001年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题 PartI ClozeTest Directions： For each numberedblank in thefollowingpassage, therearefour choicesmarked [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 1 the trial of Rosemary West. In a significant 2 of legalcontrolsover thepress,Lord Irvine, theLord Chancellor, will introduce a 3 bill that will propose making payments to witnesses 4 and will strictly control the amount of 5 that can be given to a case 6 a trial begins. In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons media select committee, Lord Irvine said he 7 with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not 8 sufficient control. 9 of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a 10 of media protest when he said the 11 of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges 12 to Parliament. TheLordChancellorsaidintroductionoftheHumanRightsBill,which 13 the European Convention on Human Rights legally 14 in Britain, laid down that everybodywas 15 toprivacyandthatpublicfigurescouldgotocourttoprotect themselves and their families. “Press freedoms will be in safe hands 16 our British judges,” he said. Witness payments became an 17 after West was sentenced to 10 life sentences in 1995. Up to 19 witnesses were 18 to have received payments for telling their stories to newspapers. Concerns were raised 19 witnesses might be encouraged exaggerate their stories in court to 20 guilty verdicts. 1. ［A］as to ［B］for instance ［C］in particular ［D］such as 2. ［A］tightening ［B］intensifying ［C］focusing ［D］fastening