单选题 Pepys and his wife Jane had asked some friends to dinner on Sunday, September 2nd, 1666. They were up very late on the Saturday evening, getting everything ready for the next day, and while they were busy they saw the glow of a fire start in the sky. By 3 o'clock on the Sunday morning, its glow had become so bright that Jane woke her husband to watch it. Pepys slipped on his dressing gown and went to the window to watch it. It seemed fairly far away, so after a time he went back to bed.
When he got up in the morning, it looked, as though the fire was dying down, though he could still see some flames. So he set to work to tidy his room and put his things back where he wanted them. While he was doing this, Jane came in to say that she had heard the fire was a bad one; three hundred houses had been burned down in the night and the fire was still burning. Pepys went out to see for himself. He went to the Tower of London and climbed up on a high part of the buildings so that he could see what was happening. From there, Pepys could see that it was, indeed, a bad fire and that even the houses on London Bridge were burning. The man of the Tower told him that the fire had started in a baker's shop in Pudding Lane; the baker's house had caught fire from the overheated oven and then the flames had quickly spread to the other houses in the narrow lane. So began the Great Fire of London, a fire that lasted nearly five days, destroyed most of the old city and ended, so it is said, at Pie Corner.

单选题 What is the passage about?
A. The Great Fire of London.
B. Who was the first to discover the fire.
C. What Pepys was doing during the fire.
D. The losses caused by the fire.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 主旨题。作者通过Pepys and his wife向读者介绍了1666年的伦敦大火的情况：这场大火发生的时间、起因以及后果等。可见本文的主题主要是围绕伦敦大火来展开的。

单选题 They were up very late because ______.
A. it was Sunday morning B. they were not very sleepy
C. they were preparing for the dinner D. they saw the great fire start

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。见第一段第二句：They were up very late on the Saturday evening，getting everything ready for the next day，…他们周六晚上睡得迟是因为第二天他们要宴请朋友，所以得做好准备。

单选题 What was Pepys doing when his wife told him about the fire?
A. He was asleep. B. He was writing something.
C. He was putting things back. D. He was looking out of the window.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。见第一段：By 3 o’clock on the Sunday morning，its glow had be—come so bright that Jane woke her husband to watch it．周Et凌晨3点，火越烧越大，简叫醒丈夫让他看看。可见，当时Pepys正在睡觉。

单选题 "Pepys slipped on his dressing gown. " To slip on means ______.
A. to be wearing B. to be pushing
C. to take off D. to put on

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 词汇题。Pepys slipped on his dressing gown and went to the window to watch it．根据上题我们知道，当时Pepys正在睡觉，妻子叫醒他后，他才slipped on他的睡袍，走到窗户边去看。因此slipped on的意思肯定与“穿”有关，首先就可排除B和C。其次分析A和D，A意为“穿着”，表状态；D意为“穿上”，表动作。可确定D为正确答案。

单选题 Why did the flames spread quickly?
A. The oven became very hot. B. The houses were close together.
C. The baker did nothing to stop it. D. The baker's house was burning quickly.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 逻辑推理题。文章最后一段提到：the baker’s house had caught fire from the over-heated oven and then the flames had quickly spread to the other houses in the narrow lane．C和D文章并未提及，A最具干扰性。A应该是起火的原因，并不是本题问的大火迅速蔓延的原因。真正的原因应该是B，这房子之间的足巨离很小。