单选题
The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases (61) the trial of Rosemary West. In a significant (62) of legal controls over the press, Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a (63) bill that will propose making payments to witnesses (64) and will strictly control the amount of (65) that can be given to a case (66) a trial begins. In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons media select committee, Lord Irvine said he (67) with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not (68) sufficient control. (69) of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a (70) of media protest when he said the (71) of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges (72) to Parliament. The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which (73) the European Convention on Human Rights legally (74) in Britain, laid down that everybody was (75) to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families.
【答案解析】[解析] A项authorized意为“被授权的,公认的,检定过的,经委托的”;B项be credited to sth.意为“归因于,归咎于”;C项entitled意为“对有资格、有权利的”;D项qualified意为“有资格的,有能力的,适合的,称职的”;搭配为be qualified for sth./to do sth.。