Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 37 to 43.
[Đoạn mở đầu của bài đọc không có trong các trang được cung cấp.]
...write Holmes stories until 1927. Among the most famous of all the works featuring Holmes are The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Blue Carbuncle, and A Scandal in Bohemia.
One of the reasons that Sherlock Holmes was so popular concerns the method he employs to solve his cases: logic. Together with his partner, Dr. Watson, Holmes uses his powers of observation to detect clues that can help him solve the cases he accepts. Holmes has an incredibly sharp mind that enables him to determine who the guilty party is or what the problem is. Holmes also is a master of disguise, which he proves many times, and he is skilled at boxing as well as sword fighting.
While Holmes often solves cases that are unrelated to one another, he has a nemesis with whom he comes into both direct and indirect conflict in several stories. That person is Professor Moriarty, the leader of a crime ring in London. In one of the stories, The Final Problem, Holmes and Moriarty fight one another and fall to their deaths by plunging down a steep cliff near a waterfall. When he wrote that story, Doyle had tired of Holmes and wanted to kill off the character. He then refrained from writing about Holmes for many years but public demand for more detective stories induced him to bring Holmes back from the dead and to continue writing.
(Adapted from Reading Intermediate)
...write Holmes stories until 1927. Among the most famous of all the works featuring Holmes are The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Blue Carbuncle, and A Scandal in Bohemia.
One of the reasons that Sherlock Holmes was so popular concerns the method he employs to solve his cases: logic. Together with his partner, Dr. Watson, Holmes uses his powers of observation to detect clues that can help him solve the cases he accepts. Holmes has an incredibly sharp mind that enables him to determine who the guilty party is or what the problem is. Holmes also is a master of disguise, which he proves many times, and he is skilled at boxing as well as sword fighting.
While Holmes often solves cases that are unrelated to one another, he has a nemesis with whom he comes into both direct and indirect conflict in several stories. That person is Professor Moriarty, the leader of a crime ring in London. In one of the stories, The Final Problem, Holmes and Moriarty fight one another and fall to their deaths by plunging down a steep cliff near a waterfall. When he wrote that story, Doyle had tired of Holmes and wanted to kill off the character. He then refrained from writing about Holmes for many years but public demand for more detective stories induced him to bring Holmes back from the dead and to continue writing.
(Adapted from Reading Intermediate)
Question 43. Why did Doyle kill Sherlock Holmes in one of his stories?
Question 43. Why did Doyle kill Sherlock Holmes in one of his stories?
Chọn một phương án bên dưới để kiểm tra đáp án ngay:
Đáp án chính thức: D
Hướng dẫn giải chi tiết
Kiến thức: Đọc – Chi tiết
Giải thích: Tại sao Doyle giết Sherlock Holmes trong một trong những câu chuyện của mình?
A. Người hâm mộ của anh ấy yêu cầu Holmes phải bị giết.
B. Giết Holmes sẽ giúp Doyle tăng doanh số bán hàng của mình.
C. Việc nghĩ ra cốt truyện mới là quá khó khăn đối với anh ấy.
D. Anh ấy không còn muốn viết về Holmes nữa.
Thông tin:
When he wrote that story, Doyle had tired of Holmes and wanted to kill off the character.
Tạm dịch:
Khi viết câu chuyện đó, Doyle mệt mỏi vì Homes và muốn giết chết nhân vật.
Choose D.
Giải thích: Tại sao Doyle giết Sherlock Holmes trong một trong những câu chuyện của mình?
A. Người hâm mộ của anh ấy yêu cầu Holmes phải bị giết.
B. Giết Holmes sẽ giúp Doyle tăng doanh số bán hàng của mình.
C. Việc nghĩ ra cốt truyện mới là quá khó khăn đối với anh ấy.
D. Anh ấy không còn muốn viết về Holmes nữa.
Thông tin:
When he wrote that story, Doyle had tired of Holmes and wanted to kill off the character.
Tạm dịch:
Khi viết câu chuyện đó, Doyle mệt mỏi vì Homes và muốn giết chết nhân vật.
Choose D.