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Everyone reads something about Sherlock Holmes, who is one of the world’s gr

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问题     Everyone reads something about Sherlock Holmes, who is one of the world’s greatest detectives. The inventor, Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL, was the most【C1】______successful author of his time; by his death in 1930 he was one of the most【C2】______Englishmen in the world.
    Conan Doyle【C3】______Sherlock Holmes to the reading public in 1887 in his novel A Study in Scarlet. Three years later, a British magazine ran short stories that【C4】______the brilliant detective with his pipe. Sherlock Holmes immediately became popular,【C5】______among those who enjoyed mysteries.【C6】______addition to his appearance, Holmes had a(an) 【C7】______method of using careful observation and " deductive reasoning " when solving【C8】______cases.
    Before achieving worldwide【C9】______as a writer, Doyle attended medical school.【C10】______studying, Conan Doyle began writing short stories. His earliest fiction, " The Haunted Grange of Goresthorpe ", was unsuccessfully【C11】______to Blackwood’s Magazine. Later, he met Professor John Bell, who was well-known for using deductive reasoning to【C12】______diseases. Doyle was so【C13】______with the method that he later made it a method peculiar【C14】______Holmes.
    The detective’s popularity led to a total of 60 stories from 1887 to 1927, and Sherlock Holmes【C15】______in 14 movies in the 1930s and 1940s. But that is not all-, he has made the Guinness Book of Records【C16】______the most frequently portrayed(描绘)literary character in film history. And more than 70 actors have【C17】______the role in more than 200 films.
    In October 2009, Guernsey Post【C18】______a set of stamps in【C19】______of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, for his 150th【C20】______of the birth to honor his accomplishments. [br] 【C12】
选项 A、diagnose
B、gather
C、establish
D、detect
答案 A
解析 动词辨义题。此句意为“随后，他认识了约翰-贝尔教授，贝尔教授因使用演绎推理来诊断疾病而闻名于世”，diagnose“诊断，断定”符合题意。gather“聚集，收集”；establish“建立”；detect“察觉，发现”，这三个动词均不符合文意，故排除。
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