The great fire of 1666 started in the house of a person who made bread in Pudding Lane,near London Bridge.In four days it destroyed four-fifths of the city as it then was,where most of the houses were made of wood.Thirteen thousand houses including one  hundred churches,the Royal Exchange,even the Guild-hall(会馆)itself went up in the fire.About 1 00,000 people became homeless.Yet in about ten years all the houses had been rebuilt.and all the famous buildings,too.

   Why could the fire cause such great pain and loss? In the early days there were no teams of men who put out fires.Since then firemen were made up and Fire Sevice Stations were developed quickly.

 47.The great fire began in a _______ .

    A.church near London Bridge      B.hotel next to the Guild-hall

    C.place where bread was cooked    D.building in Pudding Lane

 48.Guild-hall is the name of a _______.

    A.famous building      B.common house

    C.city in British        D.church in London

 49.The fire made so many people homeless because _______.

    A.the houses were all made of wood at that time

    B.the fire couldn’t be controlled quickly

    C.the firemen didn’t arrive soon enough

    D.the old houses needed to be built again

 50.The passage suggests that _______.

    A.nothing can control fire

    B.there is not enough water in London

    C.fire is the most dangerous to people

    D.bad things can be turned to good

           

  O. Henry, a famous American writer of short stories, was born in North Carolina in 1862. O. Henry was a pen name. His real name was William Sydney Porter. When he was a young boy, he did not go to school for long because of being born in a poor family, but he tried to teach himself everything he needed to know.

   When he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas. There he tried different jobs. He first worked on a newspaper, and then had a job in a bank. But he got himself into some trouble. Some money went missing from the bank. O. Henry was believed to have stolen it, so he was sent to prison(监狱). During the three years in prison, he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and went on writing.

   He wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because almost all of them finished with a sudden change. This made the readers surprised.

(   ) 44. ___________ was the real name of the famous American writer.

  A. O. Henry       B. William Sydney Porter       C. Carolina      D. Texas

(   ) 45. Which of the following is true?

  A. O. Henry was from a rich family

  B. O. Henry was in school for a long time.

  C. O. Henry learned everything he needed by himself.

  D. O. Henry liked writing stories when he was a little boy.

(   )46. People enjoyed reading O. Henry’s stories because __________________.

A. they had surprising endings    B. they were easy to understand

C. they showed love for the poor D. they were about New York

                

“Cool” is a word with many meanings. Its old meaning is used to express  a temperature that is a little bit cold. As the world has changed, the word has had many different meanings.

“Cool” can be used to express feelings of interest in almost anything.

When you see a famous car in the street, maybe you will say, “It’s cool.” You may think, “He’s so cool,”when you see your favorite footballer.

We all maximize(扩大)the meaning of “cool”. You can use it instead of many words such as “new” or “surprising”. Here’s an interesting story we can use to show the way the word is used. A teacher asked her students to write about the waterfall (瀑布) they had visited. On one student’s paper was just the one sentence, “It’s so cool. ” Maybe he thought it was the best way to show what he saw and felt.

But the story also shows a scarcity(缺乏)of words. Without “cool”, some people have no words to show the same meaning. So it is quite important to keep some credibility (可信性). Can you think of many other words that make your life as colourful as the word “cool”? I can. And I think they are also very cool .

(  ) 41. We know that the word “cool” has had ________

A. only one meaning            B. no meanings 

C. many different meanings      D. the same meaning

(  ) 42. If you are ____________ something, you may say, “It’s cool。”

A. interested in  B. angry about  C. afraid of  D. unhappy with

(  ) 43. In the passage, the word “express” means “_____________”

A. see      B. show         C. know      D. feel

                           

Laura lived in a small village near the sea. One day she decided to go for a swim in the sea. She knew that the sea near the ____31______ has a strong tide (浪) , but she was a good swimmer, so she wasn’t ___32______. Laura left her friends lying on the sands and ran into the sea. She swam quite far from the beach and waved(挥舞) to her friends in the distance. After a short while she decided to swim ____33___. She tried her best, but she couldn’t get any closer to the beach . The tide kept____34____her back. She waved her arms in the air to let her friends know that she was____35____, but they just waved back, for they didn’t know what she____36_____. After a long time, Laura became very ______37___ and she couldn’t swim any more. Her legs _____38_____and she lost hope. Suddenly, her foot touched ____39____! All the time she had been swimming in a place where the water wasn’t deep! When at last she went back to the beach, one of her friends asked, “ Did you ___40_____your swim?” “Yes, it was lovely.” She answered. She never told them what really happened.

(  ) 31. A town    B city     C village     D country

(  ) 32. A lonely    B surprised   C interested    D afraid

(  ) 33. A up     B back    C down      D on

(  ) 34. A pulling   B pushing   C throwing    D putting

(  ) 35.A in trouble   B happy    C out of trouble   D in the water

(  ) 36. A found    B meant    C said       D saw

(  ) 37. A hungry   B sleepy    C thirsty      D tired

(  ) 38. A came up   B were broken C went down    D moved on

(  ) 39. A a tide    B the sand   C a fish     D one of her friends

(  )40. A enjoy    B remember  C drop      D forget

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