研究生考试 - 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 P art I Cloze Test Directions, For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked [A], [BJ, [CJ and [OJ. Choose the best one and mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET I by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil. (10 points) The government is to ban payments to witnesses by ne衔·spapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases _l_ the trial of Rose,nary llest. In a significant ___L of legal controls over the press, Lord Irvine, t he Lord Chancellor, will introduce a ~ bill that will propose making pa邓论nts to witnesses 4 and will strictly control t he amount of 5 that can be given to a case 6 a trial begi ns . In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chail,nan of t he House of Co血rons media select committee, Lord Irvine said he _工_with a conimittee report this year which said that sel f regul ation did not土sufficient control. 9 of the l etter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a 10 of media protest when he said the II of privacy controls contained in European legislation wou ld be l eft to judges 12 to Parlianrent. The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which 13 the European Convention on Human Rights legally 14 in Britain, laid down that everybody was 15 to privacy and t hat public figures cou ld go to court to protect themselves and their fami lies. Press freedoms wi ll be in safe hands lfi our British j udges, he said. Witness payments became an 17 after West .,as sentenced to 10 1i fe sentences in 1995. llp to 19 witnesses were 18 to h