It was reported that a fire broke out in a tall building in Beijing on Thursday afternoon. No one was killed in the fire. The building, which caught fire, is near the three-tower shopping and office complex(综合体) named Xihuan Plaza. One of the three towers was in heavy smoke because of the polyfoam（泡沫塑料）outside. The fire was put out at about 3:34 pm, 16 minutes after the firemen received alarms（报警）.
Witnesses said the fire broke out at about 3:15 pm. The shopping center had people inside evacuated（疏散）shortly after the fire. By 4:50 pm, all the workers from the center returned.
【小题1】 The fire happened on a    ▲   , when people were working in the office.
【小题2】 When the firemen put out the fire, the fire lasted for     ▲    minutes.
【小题3】 The workers went back to work     ▲    an hour after the fire was put out.
【小题4】 Though the fire frightened people there, it killed     ▲   .
【小题5】 The fire didn’t     ▲    until it was 3:34.

It was reported that a fire broke out in a tall building in Beijing on Thursday afternoon. No one was killed in the fire. The building, which caught fire, is near the three-tower shopping and office complex(综合体) named Xihuan Plaza. One of the three towers was in heavy smoke because of the polyfoam（泡沫塑料）outside. The fire was put out at about 3:34 pm, 16 minutes after the firemen received alarms（报警）.

Witnesses said the fire broke out at about 3:15 pm. The shopping center had people inside evacuated（疏散）shortly after the fire. By 4:50 pm, all the workers from the center returned.

1. The fire happened on a    ▲    , when people were working in the office.

2. When the firemen put out the fire, the fire lasted for     ▲     minutes.

3. The workers went back to work     ▲     an hour after the fire was put out.

4. Though the fire frightened people there, it killed     ▲    .

5. The fire didn’t     ▲     until it was 3:34.

   The Great Fire of London started in the very early hours of September 2, 1666. In four days it destroyed (毁坏) more than three quarters of the old city, where most of those houses were built out of wood and close together. One hundred thousand people became homeless but only few lost their lives. The first started on Sunday morning. 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.

  The fire stopped only when the king finally ordered people to destroy hundreds of buildings in the path (路线) of the fire. With nothing left to burn, the fire became weak and finally died out.

(   ) 1. September 2, 1666 was _________.

A. Sunday   B. Monday   C. Tuesday   D. Wednesday

(   ) 2. The Great Fire of London destroyed more than ___________ of the old city.

A. 25 percent  B. 30 percent  C. half   D. 75 percent

(   ) 3. It was easy for the houses to catch fire because most of them were made of ________ and they ________ near each other.

A. wooden, are    B. wood, stood         C. stones, were    D. bricks, lay

(   ) 4. The fire finally was out because there wasn’t ______ left to burn in ______.

A. nothing, the fire          B. anything, the city

C. anything, the path of the fire     D. something, the streets

(   ) 5. The fire lasted _________.

A. two days  B. more than four days     C. three days D. half a month

Fire can help people in many ways. But it can also be very harmful. Fire can make water hot and house warm, give light and cook food. But fire can burn (燃烧) things, too. It can make trees, houses, animals and other things catch fire (起火). If some people can't run away from fire, it can kill them. This happens in every country every year.

Sometimes big fire can burn forests. A month ago, a large forest fire broke out in Yunnan Province. It lasted nearly half a month. The forest in Heilongjiang Province and the grassland in Inner Mongolia caught fire in May, 2006. After more than ten days' fight, over 30,000 people and soldiers put out (扑灭) the fire at last.

Nobody knows clearly when people began to make fire, but there are many interesting stories about the first time a man or a woman started a fire. One story from Australia tells about a man who went to the sun and brought fire down a long time ago. Today people know how to make a fire with matches (火柴). Children sometimes like to play with them. But matches can be very dangerous. The match can burn a piece of paper and then it can burn a house. A small fire can become a big fire, and destroy many things. Fire kills many people every year. So you must be careful with fire.

1.The main idea of the passage is that _________.

2.Matches can be dangerous because _________.

3.The word “destroy” in the passage means ________in Chinese.

4.The writer of the passage wants to tell us that ________.

Fire can help people in many ways. But it can also be very harmful. Fire can make water hot and house warm, give light and cook food. But fire can burn (燃烧) things, too. It can make trees, houses, animals and other things catch fire (起火). If some people can't run away from fire, it can kill them. This happens in every country every year.
Sometimes big fire can burn forests. A month ago, a large forest fire broke out in Yunnan Province. It lasted nearly half a month. The forest in Heilongjiang Province and the grassland in Inner Mongolia caught fire in May, 2006. After more than ten days' fight, over 30,000 people and soldiers put out (扑灭) the fire at last.
Nobody knows clearly when people began to make fire, but there are many interesting stories about the first time a man or a woman started a fire. One story from Australia tells about a man who went to the sun and brought fire down a long time ago. Today people know how to make a fire with matches (火柴). Children sometimes like to play with them. But matches can be very dangerous. The match can burn a piece of paper and then it can burn a house. A small fire can become a big fire, and destroy many things. Fire kills many people every year. So you must be careful with fire.
【小题1】The main idea of the passage is that _________.