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正确答案：D
解析：事实细节题。末段是对Blake职业的简要介绍。首句指出In the daytime he was a reporter on an evening newspaper of sensational and lying habits，这里没有提及他是著名记者，排除A 。第二句为His work was chiefly in the police courts，选项B 中的helped与该句意思不符，排除。后面的he wrote sketches and stories for the magazines that very rarely saw the light Of day on their printed and paid-for sentences表明虽然他只要有时间就写作，但是很少看到文字得以印刷并得到稿费，选项D 符合文意，故为答案。同时排除C 。