第14课（293字 2分钟）

Passage Fourteen

（K4 level）

1.The Great Fire of London started in the very early hours of 2 September 1666. 　

2.In four days it destroyed more than three-quarters of the old city, where most of the houses were wooden and close together.

3.One hundred thousand people became homeless,but only a few lost their lives.

4.The fire started on Sunday morning in the house of the King's baker in Pudding Lane.

5.The baker, with his wife and family,was able to get out through a window in the roof .

6.A strong wind blew the fire from the bakery into a small hotel next door.

7.Then it spread quickly into Thames Street，that was the beginning.

8.By eight o'clock three hundred houses were on fire.

9.On Monday nearly a kilometer of the city was burning along the River Thames.

10.Tuesday was the worst day,the fire destroyed many well-known buildings, old St Paul's and the Guildhall among them.

11.Samuel Pepys, the famous writer, wrote about the fire.

12.People threw their things into the river.

13.Many poor people stayed in their houses until the last moment.

14.Birds fell out of the air because of the heat.

15.The fire stopped only when the King finally ordered people to destroy hundreds of buildings in the path of the fire.

16.With nothing left to burn, the fire became weak and finally died out.

17.After the fire,Christopher Wren,the architect , wanted a city with wider streets and fine new houses of stone.

18.In fact, the streets are still narrow; but he did build more than fifty churches, among them new St Paul's.

19.The fire caused great pain and loss , but after it London was a better place: a city for the future and not just of the past.

生词表（New Words）

1. fire 大火 September 九月  

2. destroyed 摧毁 city 城市 wooden 木制的  

3. hundred thousand 十万 homeless 无家可归  

4. morning 早晨 baker 面包师  

5. escaped 逃出来 roof 屋顶 window 窗户  

6. blew 吹 bakery 面包店 hotel 酒店  

7. spread 蔓延   beginning 开始

8. on fire 着火  

9. city 城市 burning 燃烧    River Thames 泰晤士河  

10. destroyed 摧毁 well-known 著名的 buildings 建筑  

11. writer 作家 wrote 写了 fire 火灾  

12. river 河  

13. poor 贫穷的 leave 离开  

14. birds 鸟儿 fall掉落  

15. stopped 停止 order 命令 destroy 摧毁

buildings 建筑  

16. burn 燃烧 weak 弱 died out 熄灭  

17. architect 建筑师 stone 石头  

18. narrow 狭窄的 built 建造 churches 教堂  

19. pain 痛苦 future 未来

1. 1666年9月2日的凌晨，伦敦大火爆发。

2. 火灾在四天内摧毁了旧城的大部分地区，那里大多数房屋是木结构且密集排列的。

3. 十万人无家可归，但只有少数人丧生。

4. 火灾始于星期天早晨，地点是国王的面包师在布丁巷的住所。

5. 面包师和他的妻子及家人从屋顶的窗户逃了出来。

6. 强风将火势从面包店吹到了旁边的一家小酒店。

7. 接着火势迅速蔓延至泰晤士街，这就是火灾的开始。

8. 到早上八点，三百座房屋已经着火。

9. 到星期一，几乎一公里长的城市沿着泰晤士河燃烧。

10. 星期二是最糟糕的一天，火灾摧毁了许多著名建筑，包括旧圣保罗大教堂和市政厅。

11. 著名作家塞缪尔·佩皮斯写下了关于这场大火的记录。

12. 人们将自己的物品丢入河中。

13. 许多贫穷的人直到最后一刻才离开他们的房屋。

14. 由于高温，鸟儿从空中掉落。

15. 火势只有在国王下令摧毁数百座建筑物以阻止火灾蔓延时才停止。

16. 当没有东西可再燃烧时，火势减弱，最终熄灭。

17. 火灾过后，建筑师克里斯托弗·雷恩希望建设一座街道更宽、房屋更多为石造的新城市。

18. 事实上，街道依然狭窄；但他确实建造了超过五十座教堂，其中包括新圣保罗大教堂。

19. 火灾造成了巨大的痛苦和损失，但火灾过后，伦敦成为了一个更好的地方：一个面向未来的城市，而不仅仅是过去的城市。