TOEFL Reading अभ्यास #008 — The Fire the Water Could Not Stop (हिंदी व्याख्या)

1. A. denied
2. B. believed
3. C. proved
4. D. reported

1. A. the fire
2. B. the water main
3. C. the gas line
4. D. the nearest hydrant

1. A. a large pipe that carries water to fire hydrants
2. B. a small handheld hose firefighters use to spray water
3. C. the pump that pushes water out of a fire hydrant
4. D. a pipe that carries gas for heating and cooking

1. A. Only the gas pipes are strong enough to survive the shaking
2. B. Firefighters immediately repair the broken pipes before a fire starts
3. C. Both water pipes and gas pipes can break at the same time
4. D. The water inside hydrants becomes too hot to use

1. A. Nearly four hundred thousand people lived there
2. B. Its port linked the city to overseas trade
3. C. Most buildings were built from wood
4. D. The earthquake struck in the middle of the night

1. A. Officials found that most of the destruction came from the fire, which spread out of control after the water system failed, rather than from the earthquake itself.
2. B. Officials found that the earthquake caused most of the destruction, while the fire caused only a small part.
3. C. Officials were unable to determine whether the earthquake or the fire caused more damage.
4. D. Officials concluded that the fire alone caused all of the destruction in the city.

1. A. Firefighters always let fires burn out on their own without trying to stop them
2. B. Firefighters sometimes had to use risky methods, such as dynamite, because normal firefighting tools were not available
3. C. Dynamite was the standard method used to put out most city fires before 1906
4. D. Rivers and oceans provide enough water for firefighting even when pipes are broken

1. A. explain how dynamite is manufactured
2. B. argue that firefighters should always use dynamite during fires
3. C. show how difficult it was to stop a fire once the water supply had failed
4. D. compare San Francisco's fire department to those of other cities

1. A. It gives a real case that confirms the mechanism explained in paragraph 2
2. B. It argues that the explanation given in paragraph 2 was incorrect
3. C. It repeats the description of how gas pipes are used for heating
4. D. It introduces a completely different cause of city fires

1. A. Square A
2. B. Square B
3. C. Square C
4. D. Square D

The 1906 disaster in San Francisco showed that when a water system fails, the fire that follows an earthquake can do more damage than the shaking itself.

1. A. A powerful earthquake struck San Francisco in 1906, but most of the damage that followed came from something other than the shaking itself.
2. B. Earthquakes can crack water mains and gas pipes at the same time, leaving firefighters with no water just as a fire starts.
3. C. Some fire crews used dynamite to try to create a gap that flames could not cross.
4. D. The fire that followed the earthquake burned for three days and destroyed far more of the city than the shaking had.
5. E. The city later moved its downtown away from the coastline to avoid future flooding.
6. F. More than twenty-eight thousand buildings were destroyed in the fire.