Question

The Great Fire of London started in the very early hours of September 2, 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（路徑） 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 which was 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.

1.The underlined word‘family’in the second paragraph probably means____.

A．house

B．children

C．wife and husband

D．wife and children

2.It seems that the writer of the text was most sorry for the fact that　　 .

A．many 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

3.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.

4.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 path of the fire were destroyed.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.B

2.C

3.D

4.D  

【解析】

試題分析：文章向讀者詳細描述了倫敦火災的情況。

1.B 猜測詞義題。大火發生的時候面包師自然是應該帶著自己的老婆孩子一起逃走，The baker, with his wife and family,原句已經有了wife故這里的family指他的孩子，故B正確。

2.C 推理題。文章總提及沒有很多人在火災中死亡，故A錯誤。Birds fell out of the air because of the heat .”說明這些小鳥是被熱量熏死了的，而不是被燒死的。B錯誤。在第二段第一行中也沒有說作者為the King’s bakery的被燒掉而遺憾，根據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 .說明很多著名的建筑物被燒掉了，作者為此感到遺憾，故C正確。

3.D 推理題。根據文章第四段“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發生的情景。故D正確。

4.D 細節題。根據文章第五段1,2行　The fire stopped only when the King finally ordered people to destroy hundreds of buildings in the path（路徑） of the fire.說明D正確。

考點：考查故事類短文閱讀

點評：本篇文章要注意故事發生的時間，地點，人物，方式及事情發生的整個過程。