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 legal controls over the press, Lord Irvine, the Lord 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. The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which __13the European Convention on Human Rights legally __14__ in Britain, laid down that everybody was __15__ to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families. “Press freedoms will be in safe hands __16our 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 to exaggerate their stories in court to __20__ guilty verdicts.

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5.[A] publicity[B] penalty[C] popularity[D] peculiarity

6.[A] since[B] if[C] before[D] as

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9.[A] Release[B] Publication[C] Printing[D] Exposure

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11.[A] translation[B] interpretation[C] exhibition [D] demonstration

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13.[A] changes[B] makes[C] sets[D] turns

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15.[A] authorized[B] credited[C] entitled[D] qualified

16.[A] with[B] to[C] from[D] by

17.[A] impact[B] incident[C] inference[D] issue

18.[A] stated[B] remarked[C] said[D] told

19.[A] what[B] when[C] which[D] that

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