单项选择题
| Pepys and his wife had asked some
friends to dinner on Sunday, September 2nd, 1666. (2) 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 of a fire start in the sky. By 3 o’clock on
the Sunday morning, 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, so after a time he went back to bed. When he got up
in the morning, it looked, as though the fire was dying down, 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; hundred 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 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. |