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 that follow.

There have been many famous detectives in literature. But one of the first – and certainly the most famous – is Sherlock Holmes. Holmes was created by the British writer Sis Arthur Conan Doyle in the late nineteenth century. Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance in the work A study in Scarlet, which was published in 1887. Holmes instantly became a popular literary figure with the general populace, who demanded that Doyle write more stories involving him. Doyle complied and eventually wound up writing fifty-six short stories and four novels that featured Holmes. While he took a break of several years from creating stories about Holmes, Doyle countinued to 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 popular concerns the method he employs to solve his case: 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 or what the problem is. Holmes also is a master of disguise, which he prove 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 stories induced him to bring Holmes back from the dead and to continue writing detective stories.

Question: What does the author imply about Professor Moriarty?         

A.

A. There is an unknown reason why he engaged in a life of crime.         

B.

B. Critics consider him to be the greatest literary villain in history.         

C.

C. Sherlock Holmes and he are related to one another.           

D.

D. He fails to encounter Holmes in some stories he is involved in.

Đáp án và lời giải
Đáp án:C
Lời giải:

Đáp án C

Tác giả có ý gì về Giáo sư Moriarty?

A. Có một lý do không rõ tại sao ông lại đi vào cuộc đời của tội phạm.

B. Các nhà phê bình xem ông ta là nhân vật phản diện văn chương vĩ đại nhất trong lịch sử.

C. Sherlock Holmes và ông ta có liên quan với nhau.

D. Ông thất bại trong việc gặp phải Holmes trong một số câu chuyện mà ông ta tham gia.

Dẫn chứng: 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. (Trong lúc Holmes giải quyết các vấn đề không liên hệ với nhau, ông gặp một địch thủ người mà ông chiến đấu cả trực tiếp và gián tiếp trong rất nhiều câu chuyện).    

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