精品解析：上海市市西中学2022-2023学年高二上学期期中考试英语试卷

2022-2023学年上海市市西中学高二上学期期中考试英语试卷 I. Listening comprehension 略 II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. The Story Behind Sherlock Holmes Every year thousands of people visit one of the world’s most famous addresses: 221B Baker Street, London. It is famous ____1____ being the place where the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes lived in the well-known stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A lot of people are so taken with the stories ____2____ they forget Sherlock Holmes wasn’t a real person and therefore didn’t ever actually live at the address. In fact, there was no house there when Conan Doyle wrote the stories. So, ____3____ Sherlock Holmes was a made-up character, why do so many people think of him like 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) for ____4____ Conan Doyle worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal infirmary. Sherlock Holmes’ problem-solving ability and powers of observation are based on the surgeon. Bell was even called on by the police ____5____ (join) several investigation, just as Sherlock Holmes did. Conan Doyle found the inspiration for the name of his famous detective elsewhere, though. He was an expert cricket player and combined the names of two other well-known players, Shacklock and Sherwin, to make the name “Sherlock”. Besides, ____6____ makes the character seem like a real person is his distinctive habits. He rarely ate breakfast and had three pipes which he enjoyed smoking. ____7____ his famous methods for solving mysteries started in fiction, many of them became part of modern-day policing. Although the character is made-up, most of the locations are real. One of Con