Passage 11
Sherlock Holmes is considered by many people as the great detective in fiction. He is, in fact, more famous than his own creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
In the popular series of stories, Holmes is described as “tall and manner”. Doyle gave Holmes' address as 221-B Baker Street, London, and to this day some visitors to London still go to Baker Street to search for 221-B. Of course, there never was really any such address. Holmes' flat was supposed to be shared by the lovable, but sometimes clumsy (愚笨的) Dr. Watson who went around with Holmes trying to solve crimes before Holmes did. Poor Dr. Watson lost out to Holmes every time.
Doyle gave Holmes a masterly skill of deduction-the ability to come up with interesting conclusions from the simplest clues found at the scene of a crime.
Conan Doyle said that the description of Holmes was modelled on one of his lectures at Edinburgh University where he studied medicine. The man was Dr. Joseph Bell.
The name of Sherlock Holmes first came to be shown in Doyle's A study in Scarlet published in 1887. Holmes was so loved by all that when his author killed him off in one of his stories, readers wrote in angrily. They refused to allow Holmes to die! Holmes was brought back to “life” and appeared in further stories.
The stories of Sherlock Holmes have been reprinted many times ever since then. Today we can watch Holmes at work on cinema and television screens as well as on stage.
Sherlock Holmes was（ ）.
由文章第一段第二句可以推测福尔摩斯只是作者塑造的一个人物，而不是 真实存在的人。A 是个现实生活中非常厉害的侦探。B 项就是 Joseph, 但文段中不是。C 项 是 Arthur。ABC 均不符合文段叙述，因此答案选 D。
Holmes was supposed to have lived（ ）.
由第二段“Doyle gave Holmes' address as 221-B Baker Street, London”与 Holmes' flat was supposed to be……可知，Holmes 被假定生活在 Baker Street。A 项指的是生 活在英国。B 项指的是在伦敦的某处平房。C 项指的是在 Baker Street 的一家公寓。但从文 段的句子可以排除 ABC 三项，因此选择 D 项。
Doyle made up the description of Holmes（ ）.
根据第四段……Holmes was modeled on 和 The man was Dr. Joseph Bell。可 以判断 Holmes 是用 Dr.Joseph 为原型进行创作的。而 A 强调的处于作者的想象。B 项强调 的是基于一个出名的伦敦医生。D 项指的是基于福尔摩斯的原型。因此答案选 C 项。
Readers did not （ ）.
根据第五段倒数第二句可以判断读者不希望 Holmes 死去。A 项不喜欢福 尔摩斯死去的方式。C 项指的是不希望 Watson 死去。D 项不希望福尔摩斯在以后的情节 中出现。因此选 B 项。