Question

The Great Fire of London started in the very early hours of 2 September 1666 ．In four days it destroyed more than three-quarters of the old city , where most of the houses were wooden and close together ．Over one hundred people became homeless , but only a few lost their lives .
　　The fire started on Sunday morning in the house of the King’s baker（面包師）in Pudding Lane ．The baker , with his wife and family , was able to get out through a window into the roof ．A strong wind blew the fire from the bakery（面包房）into a small hotel next door ．Then it spread quickly into Thames Street ．That was the beginning.
　　By eight o’ clock three hundred houses were on fire ．On Monday nearly a kilometer of the city was burning along the River Thames ．Tuesday was the worst day ．The fire destroyed many well-known buildings, old St Paul’s and the Guildhall among them .
　　Samuel Pepys , the famous writer , writer about the fire , “People threw their things into the river ．Many poor people stayed in their houses until the last moment ．Birds fell out of the air because of the heat .”
The fire stopped only when the King finally ordered people to destroy hundreds of buildings in the path of the fire．With nothing left to burn, the fire became weak and finally died out.
　　After the fire, Christopher Wren, the architect(建筑師), wanted a city with wider streets and fine new houses of stone．In fact, the streets are still narrow, but he did build more than fifty churches, among them the new St Paul’s
　　The fire caused great pain and loss, but after it London was a better place: a city for the future and not just of the past.
小題1:The fire began in　　 .

A．a(chǎn) hotel

B．the palace

C．Pudding Lane

D．Thames Street

小題2:The underlined word‘family’in the second paragraph means　　 .

A．home

B．children

C．wife and husband

D．wife and children

小題3:It seems that the writer fo the text was most sorry for the fact that ________.

A．some people lost their lives

B．the birds in the sky were killed by the fire

C．many famous buildings were destroyed

D．the King’s bakery was burned down

小題4:Why did the writer cite(引用)Samuel Pepys?

A．Because Pepys was among those putting out the fire.

B．Because Pepys also wrote about the fire.

C．To show that poor people suffered most.

D．To give the reader a clearer picture of the fire.

小題5:How was the fire put out according to the text?

A．The King and his soldiers came to help.

B．All the wooden houses in the city were destroyed.

C．People managed to get enough water from the river.

D．Houses standing in the direction of the fire were pulled down.

Answer 1

小題1:C
小題2:B
小題3:C
小題4:D
小題5:D

試題分析：文章向讀者詳細(xì)描述了倫敦火災(zāi)的情況。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)題：根據(jù)第二段第一句話“The fire started on Sunday morning in the house of the King’s baker（面包師）in Pudding Lane ”可知火災(zāi)是在Pudding Lane路上最先發(fā)生的。故選C。
小題2:推理題：文章總提及沒(méi)有很多人在火災(zāi)中死亡，故A錯(cuò)誤；“Birds fell out of the air because of the heat .”說(shuō)明這些小鳥(niǎo)是被熱量熏死了的，而不是被燒死的，因此B錯(cuò)誤；在第二段第一行中也沒(méi)有說(shuō)作者為the King’s bakery的被燒掉而遺憾，因此D錯(cuò)誤；根據(jù)文章第三段最后一句. The fire destroyed many well-known buildings, old St Paul’s and the Guildhall among them .說(shuō)明很多著名的建筑物被燒掉了，作者為此感到遺憾。故選C。
小題3:推理題：根據(jù)文章第四段中“People threw their things into the river. Many poor people stayed in their houses until the last moment. Birds fell out of the air because of the heat .”是向讀者描述了火災(zāi)發(fā)生的情景。故選C。
小題4:推理題：根據(jù)文章第四段中“People threw their things into the river. Many poor people stayed in their houses until the last moment. Birds fell out of the air because of the heat .”是向讀者描述了火災(zāi)發(fā)生的情景。故選C。
小題5:細(xì)節(jié)題：根據(jù)文章第五段中“The fire stopped only when the King finally ordered people to destroy hundreds of buildings in the path（路徑） of the fire”大火最終在國(guó)王下令讓人們摧毀火徑上的幾百座建筑物后熄滅了。故選D。