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  3. Henry Fielding, the famous novelist who was also a London magistrate, once made a night raid to 【M1】 _

Henry Fielding, the famous novelist who was also a London magistrate, once made a night raid to 【M1】 _

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问题    Henry Fielding, the famous novelist who was also
a London magistrate, once made a night raid to                           【M1】 ______.
two known hideouts in this city-within-a-city;
he found seven men, women, and children packed
away in a few tiny stinking rooms. All of these
people, included little children of five and                             【M2】 ______.
six who were trained as pick-pockets, were
wanted for crime.
    Conditions like these bred more criminals.
One of the typical cases was that Jack Shepard,                          【M3】 ______.
whose execution in 1724 was watched by two
hundred thousand people. Shepard, the son of
honest working people, was an apprentice in
a respectful trade, he ran away from it because                          【M4】 ______.
he fancied that he had been ill-treated,
and soon found it was easy to make more                                  【M5】 ______.
money by thieving as his father had done                                【M6】 ______.
by a lifetime of honest work.
    In Shepard’s day highwaymen committed
robberies at broad daylight, in sight                                    【M7】 ______.
of a crowd, and rode solemnly and triumphantly
through the town with danger of molestation.                             【M8】 ______.
If they were chased, twenty or thirty
armed men were ready to come to their
assistance. Murder was a everyday affair,                                【M9】 ______.
and there were many people who made heroes
from the murderers.                                                      【M10】 ______.
【M4】
选项
答案respectful改成respectable。
解析 respectful与respectable为容易混淆的近形词。事实上，它们的意义相去甚远，respectful表示“有礼貌的”，respectable表示“相当好的，体面的，应受尊敬的”。根据上下文的内容应为respectable。
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