While he was doing this, Jane came in to say that she had heard the fire was a bad one; hundred houses had been burned down in the night and he 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 over — heated 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9: “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
10. 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.
Passage 3
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passages
A new report of the United Nations shows that, if the present growth rate of 2 percent per year continues, today’s world population of 5. 1 will hit 6.4 billion by the year 2000.
What’s more, the great part of the growth ——— 9 of every 10 p~ added to the earth’s population ——— will be in the poor and undeveloped countries. These are the nations where providing enough food for billions of people already is proving to be a headaching problem.
By the year 2000,today’s “have not” nations will have a total population of 5 billion people, nearly four fifths of the world’s population.
Food isn’t the only problem that such a population explosion presents. The more people there are and the worse their living conditions, the greater grow the possibility of all kinds of social problems.
In 1830, world population reached 1 billion. It took only 100 more years to add another billion to world population just 30 more to add a third billion. And it took just 15 more years to reach the 4 billion mark in 1975.
