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英語長文読解 シャーロックホームズ入門 (Introduction to Sherlock Holmes) 問題ダウンロード
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Introduction to Sherlock Holmes:
Every year, many foreign visitors to London go to a famous street. Many of them even want to see Sherlock Holmes there. He is very famous in the world and has many hobbies. He likes playing the violin while he is solving one of his mysteries. Maybe some visitors think they will hear the sound of his violin.
(1) London doesn't want its foreign visitors to feel sad. The city has built the kind of house that was popular around (2) 1890. Of course, it is not the real thing. but looks just the same as the house in the Sherlock Holmes stories.
How was Sherlock Holmes created? If you really want to know, you should visit Scotland. At a university there, the writer of the Sherlock Holmes stories studied medicine. The name of the writer was Conan Doyle. He first got the idea of Sherlock Holmes from 10 his teacher Dr. Bell. Like Holmes, Dr. Bell could give the life history of any dead body that was put before him. In one case, Dr. Bell said, “The angry and liked crying.” How did he know? By smelling the dead man's mouth, and looking at the lines of his face and his strong legs. Conan Doyle never forgot (3) this special gift Dr. Bell had.
Conan Doyle wanted to be a doctor, but nobody came to see him. He spent his time writing the Sherlock Holmes stories. (4) He only thought of his writing as a hobby. He didn't think his stories were very interesting. He was not making much money as a doctor, so he sold his stories. They were a success. First, they were written in a magazine. Later, they were all put together in a book.
The British people loved Sherlock Holmes. but Conan Doyle did not. He wanted to stop writing these stories. In one story, Holmes was pushed off a high and dangerous place. (5) The readers were very angry. They wrote many letters. "Was our hero Sherlock Holmes killed?" Conan Doyle did not enjoy writing Holmes stories, but he had to keep writing.
In the next story, he wrote that Holmes did not really fall to his death. He caught a branch of a tree while he was falling. Sherlock Holmes lived and solved many more mysteries. In the hearts and minds of lots of people, he lives on to this day.
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表題：シャーロックホームズ入門 (Introduction to Sherlock Holmes)
語数：３９６語 (３９６words)
難易：ＣＥＦＲーＡ２ 公立中学２年生以上
要約：説明文。シャーロックホームズがどのようにして人気キャラクターとなったのか、作家のコナンドイルとともに紹介する文章です。
領域：言語と文化 (Language and Culture)
用語：コナンドイル シャーロックホームズ 探偵小説 ロンドン
時間：１５分
履歴：２０１５年初稿 ２０１８年第二稿