3. What was the Holmes’ idea about knowledge-learning?
[A]Learning what every body learned.
[B]Learning what was useful to you.
[C]Learning whatever you came across.
[D]Learning what was different to you.
4. What did the article mentioned in the passage talk about?
[A]One may master the way of reasoning through observation.
[B]One may become rather critical through observation and analysis.
[C]One may become rather sharp through observation and analysis.
[D]One may become practical through observation and analysis.
Vocabulary
1. Thomas Carlyle 托馬斯·卡萊爾 1795-1881美國作家、歷史家、哲學(xué)家
2. jumble (up) 搞亂,使混亂
3. lay hand on (upon) sth. 抓住,找到
4. at best 的情況下
5. elbow out (off) 用胳膊肘擠出,推出
6. deuce = devil
what the deuce is it to me? 這里表示福爾摩斯的厭惡心理。義:這倒霉的詞兒與我有什么關(guān)系?
7. while away the time 消磨/打發(fā)時間
8. shrewdness 機敏,敏銳,犀利
9. far-fetched 牽強附會,不自然
10. fathom 看穿/透,推測,探索
11. infallible 一貫正確
12. uninitiated 對某事無知的
13. Euclid 歐幾里德(古希臘數(shù)學(xué)家)
14. necromancer 巫師

