2017年下半年公共英语PETS二级阅读理解练习题（二十七）
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(微弱的光) of a fire start in the sky. By 3 o'clock on the Sunday moning, 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, and after a time he went back to bed. When he got up in the morning, it looked, though the fire was dying down, as 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; hundreds of 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 upon a high part of the build- ing 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(小巷) ; the baker's house had caught fire from the over-beated oven(烤箱)and then the flames had quickly spread to the other houses in the narrow lane. So the Great Fire of London, a fire that lasted nearly five days, destroyed most of the old city and ended, as it is said, at Pie Corner.
1. 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.
2.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
3. In the sentence" Pepys slipped on his dressing-gown. "" slip on" means________.
A. to be wearing
B. to be pushing
C.to take off
D.to put on
4. 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.
篇章分析
本文是一篇记叙文，讲述了l666年在伦敦发生的一场大火。文章从一对夫妇Pepys和Jane的经历写这场大火。由于这对夫妇家离大火发生处很远，因此开始时只能看到微弱的火光。第二天早上妻子Jane告诉丈夫发生了大火，并且烧毁了很多房子.而大火还在燃烧。Pepys于是找一个高点观望，看到很多房子被烧毁。大火是由一个面包师的烤箱起火引起的0t
答案及解析
1.A
【题型】主旨题
【解析】通过对文章的分析，可知本文记叙了伦敦的大火。而B、C、D三项文中只是提到，而非文章主旨，故不能选择。
2.C
【题型】细节题
【解析】题干问“他们晚上待到很晚是为了_______”。由第一段第二句They were up very late on the Saturday evening，getting everything readyfor the next day…可知是为第二天的宴会做准备。
3.D
【题型】语义题
【解析】由下文…and went to the window to watch it.可知要去窗户那儿看火光，要穿上睡衣才行。to be wearing表示穿着的状态;to takeoff“脱下”;to be pushing“正在推”，均不符合文义。
4.B
【题型】推断题
【解析】题干问“大火为什么迅速蔓延?”由文章第二段倒数第二句…and then the flames had quickly spread to the other houses in the narrowlane.中的“narrow lane”可推知，这是一个狭窄的小巷，房子一定挨得很紧。
