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For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked £ÛA£Ý,£ÛB £Ý,£ÛC£Ý and £ÛD£Ý. Choose the best one and mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil. (10 points)

The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases     31    the trial of Rosemary West.

In a significant ª©32ªª of legal controls over the press. Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a ª©33ªª bill that will propose making payments to witnesses ª©34ªª and will strictly control the amount of ª©35ªª that can be given to a case ª©36ªª a trial begins.

In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons media select committee. Lord Irvine said he ª©37ªª with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not ª©38ªª sufficient control.39ªª of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a ª©40ªª of media protest when he said the ª©41ªª of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges ª©42ªª to Parliament.

The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which     43ªª the European Convention on Human Rights legally ª©44ªª in Britain, laid down that everybody was ª©45ªª to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families.

"Press freedoms will be in safe hands ª©46ªª our British judges," he said.

Witness payments became an ª©47ªª after West was sentenced to 10 life sentences in 1995. Up to 19 witnesses were ª©48ªª to have received payments for telling their stories to newspapers. Concerns were raised ª©49ªª witnesses might be encouraged to exaggerate their stories in court to ª©50ªª guilty verdicts.