单选题
The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases
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the trial of Rosemary West. In a significant
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of legal controls over the press, Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a
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bill that will propose making payments to witnesses
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and will strictly control the amount of
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that can be given to a case
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a trial begins. In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons media select committee, Lord Irvine said he
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with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not
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sufficient control.
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of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a
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of media protest when he said the
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of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges
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to parliament. The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which
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the European convention on Human Rights legally
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in Britain, laid down that everybody was
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to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families. "Press freedoms will be in safe hands
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our British judges," he said. Witness payments became an
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after West was sentenced to 10 life sentences in 1995. Up to 19 witnesses were
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to have received payments for telling their stories to newspapers. Concerns were raised
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witnesses might be encouraged to exaggerate their stories in court to
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guilty verdicts.
【答案解析】[解析] 形近词辨析。选项中的形容词均以il-，im-开头，但词义不同。illogical“不合逻辑的”；illegal“不合法的”；improbable“未必会的，不太可能的”；improper“不适当的”。根据题意，making payments to witnesses(向证人付款)显然是不合法的行为，故答案为B。
【答案解析】[解析] 动词词义辨析。present“呈递，提出”，其用法为present sb. with sth.或present sth. to sb.；offer有“主动提出，提供”的意思；manifest“表明，征服”；indicate“指示；暗示”。此处是指“自我管制未能提供足够的控制力”。故答案为B。