公共英语考试

【单选题】Text
The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases (26) the trial of Rosemary West.
In a significant (27) of legal controls over the press, Lord Irvine, the LordChancellor, will introduce a (28) bill that will propose making payments to witnesses (29) and will strictly control the amount of (30) that can be given to a case (31) a trial begins.
In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House ofCommons Media SelectCommittee, Lord Irvine said he (32) with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not (33) sufficient control.
(34) of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a (35) of media protest when he said the (36) of privacy controls contained inEuropean legislation would be left to judges (37) to Parliament.
The LordChancellor said introduction of the Human RightsBill, which (38) theEuropeanConvention on Human Rights legally (39) inBritain, laid down that everybody was (40) to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families.
"Press freedoms Will be in safe hands (41) ourBritish judges." he saiD、
Witness payments became an (42) after West was sentenced to 10 life sentences in 1995. Up to 19 witnesses were (43) to have received payments for telling their stories to newspapers.Concerns were raised (44) witnesses might be encouraged to exaggerate their stories in court to (45) guilty verdicts.
A．with
B．to
C．from
D．by

网考网参考答案：A
网考网解析：
[考点解析] 本题的考点是词汇。空格所在的句子是“Press freedoms will be in safe hands ______ our British judges.”从句子的结构来看，空格处填入的介词应可和in safe hands搭配。四个选项中只有A可以和in safe hands搭配，而且符合题意，所以正确的答案是A。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>