Dr Joseph Bell - Test 8

B2 First · Multiple Choice Cloze · Cambridge English First 2, Cambridge University Press

For questions 1–8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning.

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Dr Joseph Bell was a distinguished Scottish doctor and professor at Edinburgh University in the (0) ___ nineteenth century. He had remarkable powers of observation and deduction. This (1) ___ him to accumulate useful information about patients in a very (2) ___ space of time. He was very good at (3) ___ where his patients were from by identifying small differences in their accents. He could also (4) ___ a patient's occupation from marks on their hand. He claimed to be able to (5) ___ a sailor from a soldier just from the way they moved. If he identified a person as a sailor he would look for any tattoos that might assist him in knowing where their travels had (6) ___ them. Dr Bell's skills for observation and deduction (7) ___ a great impression on his students, particularly on one called Arthur Conan Doyle. Conan Doyle went on to create the famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, whose character was (8) ___ on that of Dr Bell.

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