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    Every year, thousands of people visit one of the world's 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 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. 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 he's 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 part of modern-day policing.
Although the character is made-up, most of the locations are real. One of Conan Doyle's strengths as an author is describing a London that seems so real to the reader. Most of the famous locations in the books are in London and Sherlock Holmes fans love to visit the locations in the books and those used later in the movies.
Sherlock Holmes is the second most represented character in movies, which is part of what makes him so famous all over the world. So, now what's your favourite version of the Sherlock Holmes stories? The books, movies or TV series?
28. The underlined part in paragraph 2 can he replaced by       .
A. crazy about                B. familiar with
C. curious about              D. content with
29. What can we learn about the writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from the passage?
A. He was a forensic surgeon who assisted the police in making several investigations.
B. He wrote the stories about Sherlock Holmes at Number 239 Baker Street.
C. He was good at giving vivid descriptions of London to readers.
D. He was an excellent basketball player.
30. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Where Sherlock Holmes lived In the novel was actually where the Sherlock Holmes Museum lies now.
B. It's generally accepted that the character Sherlock Holmes was based on a surgeon named Bell.
C. The Royal Society of Chemistry has given Sherlock Holmes a great honor at the request of his fans.
D. One of the reasons why Sherlock Holmes is so famous around the world is that the actors have Wonderful performances in movies.
31. What's the purpose of writing this article?
A. to let the readers learn about some life information on Sherlock Holmes.
B. to tell the readers about stories behind Sherlock Holmes.
C. to make us get a better idea of the novel "Sherlock Holmes."
D. to convince us that the Sherlock Holmes Museum is worth visiting.
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