Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements, numbered 36 through 40. For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should make the correct choice.
Rome's fire-fighting brigade remained until the fall of the empire in the 4th century. In the Dark Ages that followed, it was believed that fires were God's punishment of the people for the bad thing they had done. And from the 4th to the 14th century,
When file destroyed a home during the Dark Ages, people ______.
A.felt that the fire was a punishment given by God
B.wished the brigade had arrived sooner
C.tried to stop heating by dried grass or wood
D.tried to know how and why the fire started