高考英语模拟试题(2) .pdf

高考英语模拟试题（2 ） 2017 高考英语模拟试题 C Every year, thousands of people visit one of the worlds most famous address:221B Baker Street, London. The address is famous for being where the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes lived in the well-known stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A lot of people are so taken wish the stories that they forget Sherlock Holmes wasnt a real person and therefore didnt ever actually live at the address. In fact, there was no house there when Conan Doyle wrote the stories. Despite that, the Sherlock Holmes Museum, which is actually at Number 239, is a fun place to visit if you are ever in London. So, if Sherlock Holmes is a made-up character, why do so many people think of him as a real person? It is often said that the character Sherlock Holmes was based on a real person named Benjamin Bell. a forensic surgeon(法医外 科医生)for whom Conan Doyle worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Hospital. Sherlock Holmes problem-solving ability and power of observation are based on the surgeon. Bell was called on by the police to join in several investigations, just as Sherlock Holmes did. Conan Doyle found the inspiration for the name of his famous detective elsewhere, though. He was an expect cricket player and combined the names of two other well-known players, Shacklock and Sherwin, to make the name Sherlock. Another thing that makes the character seem like a real person is his distinctive habits. He rarely ate breakfast and he enjoyed smoking. He even had a habit that would be illegal today-taking cocaine. Sherlock Holmes is also an honorary member of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Even though hes not a real person, the society decided to make him a member. Although his famous methods for solving mysteries started in fiction, many of them became