Use of English
Multiple Choice - Example 4

Part 1

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 (0).

Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet.

Example:

0 A late B previous C closing D final

Dr Joseph Bell

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.