Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character

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Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character
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Arthur Conan Doyle
contents of books A Study in Scarlet
????? The Sign of Four ??? The
Adventures ????? The Memories
????? The Return ????? The Hound of
the Baskervilles ???????? The Valley of Fear
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22 May 1859- 7 July 1930, Scotland. Medical
degree , Created the amateur detective Sherlock
Holmes
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A famous detective. A fictional character
created by Conan Doyle. He is very good
at reasoning(??) and observing(??). In the
stories, he was never employed by the
police. For more than a century his name has
been known in every country of the world and
not only his name, but his appearance too.
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He was however the great detectives loyal
companion . Holmes was aware of his value -
he said to him on one occasion it may be that
you are not yourself luminous( ???), but you are
a conductor (??) of light".
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• Useful words
• fiction n. ??????
• fictional adj. ?????????
• fictional character ????
• Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character.
• be adapted from ???...
• This story is adapted from The Speckle Band
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• clue n. ??

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• Question
• Why was the young lady worried?

She was not sleeping well Often at night, she
would hear noises Her uncle was acting strangely
towards her They had quarreled.
2. Why was Holmes worried?
Her uncle would get her money if she died After
examining the room, the hole in the wall and the
bell rope, Holmes became worried. He told her
that her life was in danger and that it was not
safe for her to sleep again in that room.
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One day a young lady came to see the famous
detective Sherlock Holmes. She asked him to her
with her _________ problem. Her parents had died,
____________ her a lot of money.She was now
living with her _______. Every night she heard
some strange ______ and could not sleep well.
Besides, she was not getting _____ well with her
uncle. They even _________ sometimes. Having
learned that the ladys uncle was her only
________, Holmes decided to _______ a visit to
her house.

The next day, when the ladys uncle
was ______, Holmes and his friend Dr Watson went
to her house. They ____________ both the ladys
and her unclels bedrooms which were next to each
other. Holmes saw a hole up in the wall between
the two rooms, with a metal ________ on the floor
of the uncles room From what he discovered,
Holmes decided that the girls life was in
________.
personal
leaving
uncle
noises
on
quarreled
relative
pay
away
examined/checked
chest
danger
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1.Who will get her money if the young lady
dies? 2.What did Holmes find in the young ladys
bedroom? 3.What did Holmes find in her uncles
bedroom? 4. Why did Holmes ask if her uncle
kept pets? 5.What do you think was kept in the
chest?
A hole in the wall between two rooms and a red
bell rope which lay upon the pillow of the bed.
A narrow bed and a bowl of milk on the floor, a
heavy metal chest in the corner, an armchair, two
pipes,some tobacco, a box of matches ,a gun and a
thin piece of rope with the end tied in a circle.
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B
1.Holmes usually found the answer before the
police perhaps because __

A. Holmes watched
things very carefully
B. Holmes was cleverer than any
other person C.It
was easy for Holmes to do a puzzle
D. Holmes had a
special brain

2. The young lady often heard
a long low whistle at night perhaps because
________.
A. she
was dreaming B. her uncle wads training the
snake C. the snake got out of the
chest D.her uncle liked to make a whistle
while lying in bed
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Which statement is wrong? _______

A. The ladys parents died and left her a lot of
money. B.Holmes didnt find the
answer until he examined the uncles room. C.
Holmes could easily open the door without the
key. D. Holmes was
famous for his special brain
B
C
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B

• 4. The phrase have on idea in the text means
  _____.
• have no plan B. havent thought
  out an idea C. dont know
  D. I am not against
• 5. Which sentence hints that a snake was in the
  chest? ___ A. Her uncle returned from
  India. B.
  She often heard a long low whistle.
  C. What Holmes saw in the ladys
  uncles room D. All of the above.

D
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