Fire can help people in many ways. But it can also be very harmful. Fire can heat water, warm your houses, give light, and cook food. But fire can burn things too. It can burn trees, houses, animals, or people. Sometimes big fires can burn forests.
Nobody knows for sure how people began to use fire. But there are many interesting, old stories about the first time a man or woman started a fire. One story from Australia tells about a man a very, very long time ago. He went up to the sun by a rope and brought fire down.
Today people know how to make a fire with matches. Children sometimes like to play with them. But matches can be very dangerous. One match can burn a piece of paper, and then it might burn a house. A small fire can bee a big fire very fast.
Fires kill many people every year. So you must he careful with matches. You should also learn to put out fires. Fires need oxygen. Without oxygen they die. There is oxygen in the air. Cover a fire with water, sand, or in an emergency, with your coat or something else.This keeps the air away from a fire and kills it.
Be careful with fire, and it will help you. Be careless with fire, and it will burn you.
8. According to the passage which of the following is true?
A. Where there is oxygen there is fire.
B. It is an Australian who started a fire.
C. We are not sure how people started to use fire.
D. Nobody knows how to make a fire.
9. The reason why children mustn’t play with matches is that .
A. they don’t know how to make a fire with matches B. it is not interesting
C. matches can be dangerous D. matches burn paper
10. If you are going to put out a fire, you .
A. must be careful with matches B. have to know fires kill many people every year
C. have to cover it with water only D. should keep air away from it
11. We must be careful with fire, or it .
A. can die B. warms our houses C. might burn us D. will help us
12. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Fire can help people in many waysB. Fire can be both helpful and harmful.
C. Fire can burn things and people. D. We must be careful with matches.8-12 CCDCB
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(答案→)8-12 CCDCB
解析：8. 推理判断题。根据第2段第 1 句 Nobody knows for sure how people began to use fire
9. 推理判断题。根据第3段第 2 句 Children sometimes like to play with them. But matches can be very dangerous 可以推断孩子们不可以玩火柴，是因为火柴可能很危险。故答案为 C。
10. 根据文章倒数第2段中 Fires need oxygen. Without oxygen they die. There is oxygen in the air…This keeps the air away from a fire and kills it 可以推知答案为 D。
11. 事实细节题。根据文章最后一句 Be careless with fire, and it will burn you 可知答案为12. 主旨大意题。根据文章首句 Fire can help people in many ways. But it can also be very harmful 可知火有用但也有害，故答案为 B。