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【2016·全国新课标III】

  On one of her trips to New York several yearsago, Eudora Welty decided to take a couple of New York friends out to dinner.They settled in at a comfortable East Side cafe and within minutes, anothercustomer was approaching their table.

“Hey, aren’t you fromMississippi?” the elegant, white-haired writer remembered being asked by thestranger. “I’m from Mississippi too.”

Without a secondthought, the woman joined the Welty party. When her dinner partner showed up,she also pulled up a chair.

“They began telling meall the news of Mississippi,” Welty said. “I didn’t know what my New Yorkfriends were thinking.”

Taxis on a rainy NewYork night are rarer than sunshine. By the time the group got up to leave, itwas pouring outside. Welty’s new friends immediately sent a waiter to find acab. Heading back downtown toward her hotel, her big-city friends were amazedat the turn of events that had changed their Big Apple dinner into aMississippi.

“My friends said: ‘Nowwe believe your stories,’” Welty added. “And I said: ‘Now you know. These arethe people that make me write them.’”

Sitting on a sofa inher room, Welty, a slim figure in a simple gray dress, looked pleased with thisexplanation.

“I don’t make themup,” she said of the characters in her fiction these last 50 or so years. “Idon’t have to.”

Beauticians,bartenders, piano players and people with purple hats, Welty’s people come fromafternoons spent visiting with old friends, from walks through the streets ofher native Jackson, Miss., from conversations overheard on a bus. It annoysWelty that, at 78, her left ear has now given out. Sometimes, sitting on a busor a train, she hears only a fragment(片段) of a particularly interesting story.

5.What happened whenWelty was with her friends at the cafe?

 A. Twostrangers joined her.

 B. Herchildhood friends came in.

 C. A heavy rain ruined the dinner.

 D.Some  people held a party there.

6.The underlined word“them” in Paragraph 6 refers to Welty’s.

 A.readers    

 B. parties    

 C. friends  

 D. stories

7.What can we learnabout the characters in Welty’s fiction?

A. They live in big cities.

B. They are mostly women.

C. They come from real life.

D. They are pleasure seekers.

【答案】5.A6.D7.C

【解析】文章介绍了一位女作家请纽约的朋友吃饭时发生的故事。Welty是一位年纪比较大的作家，她来自密西西比。Welty的作品都是来自于现实的生活。

5.A细节理解题。根据第一段“another coustomer wasapproaching their table”和第三段“the woman joined thaeWelty party.When her dinner partner showed up,she also pulled up a chair”可知，先后有两个陌生人（一位女士及其同伴）加入了Welty他们的聚会，故选A。

6.D猜测词义题。划线的them指代前面提到的人或物，根据“Now we believe your stories”可知，them指代的是Welty写的小说里面的故事，听了Welty和两个陌生人的有关密西西比的谈话之后，Welty的朋友相信了Welty小说里的故事都是来源于生活，故选D。

7.C推理判断题。根据“I don’t make them up”和“Welty’s people come from afternoons spent visitingwith old friends,from walks through the streets of her native Jackson,Miss fromconversations overheard on a bus”可知，Welty小说里的人物并非虚构的，他们都来源于现实的生活，故选C。