2001年考研英语真题（可复制、可搜索）

2001年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题Section I Use of EnglishDirections:For each numbered blank in the following passage,there are four choices marked [A],[B],[C],and[D].Choose the best one and mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening thecorresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil.(10 points)The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up peopleinvolved in prominent cases 1 the trial of Rosemary West.In a significant 2 of legal controls over the press,Lord Irvine,the Lord Chancellor,willintroduce a 3 bill that will propose making payments to witnesses4and will strictly controlthe amount of 5 that can be given to a case 6 a trial begins.In a letter to Gerald Kaufman,chairman of the House of Commons media select committee,LordIrvine said he 7 with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not 8sufficient control.9of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a 10 of media protest when hesaid the_11 of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges 12 toParliament.The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill,which13 the EuropeanConvention on Human Rights legally 14 in Britain,laid down that everybody was 15 toprivacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families."Press freedoms will be in safe hands 16 our British judges,"he said.Witness payments became an 17 after West was sentenced to 10 life sentences in 1995.Up to19 witnesses were 18 to have received payments for telling their stories to newspapers.Concernswere raised 19 witnesses might be encouraged exaggerate their stories in court to 20 guiltyverdicts.英语试题.1.（共14页）