1. Read the following text. Complete the text with five sentences from the list below. Two sentences don’t belong in the text. Choose the correct letter. 

Back then, fire was used in everyday life much more than it is now. Fire was necessary for heating, lighting, and cooking. It took time to light a fire, and with several fireplaces in many households, it was common not to put all fires out when people went to bed at night. There was also the issue of how to get rid of the ashes of a fire. (1) _ _ ? _ _. A servant had left a tub of ashes under the stairs, not realising that some of the ash was still hot. As a result, 42 houses on the bridge burned down.

2. Many industries based throughout the City of London required fire to operate, such as baking, dyeing, and soap-making. Those contributed to London’s fire risk and also created air pollution.
 
The Great Fire of 1666 created a perfect opportunity for a crime spree. (2) _ _ ? _ _. There were also many reports of people having started or spread the fire deliberately.

3. Eyewitnesses remembered that people’s priority was often saving their possessions rather than fighting the fire. Money, musical instruments, pets, and cheese were just some of the things that Londoners tried to rescue. Reports are full of tales of exhausted people moving belongings from one friend’s house to another as the fire spread. Sensing an opportunity, carters started charging £20 or more (about £3,000 today) to hire their carts. People who couldn’t afford that had to leave many of their things to burn. The streets were so crowded with carts that the authorities tried to ban them from the City.
 
Thousands of people could not save their belongings and had to leave them behind. Archaeologists still find hoards of objects in the cellars of burnt-out buildings. Around 100,000 people lost their homes in the fire. Many homes burned down, but others were pulled down to halt the fire. (3) _ _ ? _ _. For most this was temporary but some people lived there for up to eight years.

4. The navy sent ships’ biscuits to those who were staying in shelters. They were salty, hard biscuits made for sailors to eat at sea. People didn’t like them and sent them back uneaten.
 
Luckier Londoners moved in with friends and family while others looked for somewhere to rent. But rents soared in unaffected areas and many people moved away and never returned.
 
(4) _ _ ? _ _. He also established a national fundraising scheme to help penniless Londoners. On 10 October 1666, people across the country collected money to send to London. Over the next few years, over £16,000 (about £2.4 million today) was given, although there was a real worry that London would never recover.

5. Most house rental contracts in 1666 made tenants liable to repair and rebuild their houses if they became damaged. They also had to pay rent, even if their house was in ruins. For Londoners after the Great Fire, this was an enormous problem.
 
A special Fire Court of three or more judges was set up at Clifford’s Inn to deal with disputes between tenants and landlords about who should pay to rebuild. (5) _ _ ? _ _. The Fire Court made their decisions very speedily, which stopped disputes from dragging on and enabled Londoners to rebuild as soon as possible. The Court’s first session was held on 27 February 1667, less than six months after the fire.