Question

13．On one of her trips to New York several years ago，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，another customer was approaching their table．
"Hey，aren't you from Mississippi？"the elegant，white-haired writer remembered being asked by the stranger．"I'm from Mississippi too．"
 Without a second thought，the woman joined the Welty party．When her dinner partner showed up，she also pulled up a chair．
"They began telling me all the news of Mississippi，"Welty said．"I didn't know what my New York friends were thinking．"
    Taxis on a rainy New York night are rarer than sunshine．By the time the group got up to leave，it was pouring outside．Welty's new friends immediately sent a waiter to find a cab．Heading back downtown toward her hotel，her big-city friends were amazed at the turn of events that had changed their Big Apple dinner into a Mississippi
"My friend said：‘Now we believe your stories，'"Welty added．And I said：‘Now you know．These are the people that make me write them．'"
Sitting on a sofa in her room，Welty，a slim figure in a simple gray dress，looked pleased with this explanation．
"I don't make them up，"she said of the characters in her fiction these last 50 or so years．"I don't have to．"
    Beauticians，bartenders，piano players and people with purple hats，Welty's people come from afternoons spent visiting with old friends，from walks through the streets of her native Jackson，Miss，from conversations overheard on a bus．It annoys Welty that，at 78，her left ear has now given out．Sometimes，sitting on a bus or a train，she hears only a fragment（片段） of a particularly interesting story．

5．What happened when Welty was with her friends at the cafe？A
A．Two strangers joined her．
B．Her childhood 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'sD
A．readers    B．parties    C．friends    D．stories
7．What can we learn about the characters in Welty's fiction？C
A．They live in big cities
B．They are mostly women
C．They come from real life
D．They are pleasure seekers．

Answer 1

分析 文章介紹一位女作家請紐約的朋友吃飯時發生的故事，Welty是一位年齡較大的作家，她來自密西西比，Welty的作品都是來自于現實的生活，有很強的現實性．

解答 5-7 ADC
5．A 細節理解題，根據第一段"another customer was approaching their table"和第三段"the woman joined the Welty party．When her dinner partner showed up，she also pulled up a chair"可知先后有兩個陌生人，一位女生及其同伴加入了Welty的聚會，故選A．
6．D 詞義猜測題，劃線的them指代前面提到的人或物，根據"Now we believe your stories"可知，them指代的是Welty的小說里的故事，聽了Welty和兩個陌生人的關密西西比的談話后，Welty的朋友相信其小說里的故事都是來源于生活的，故選D．
7．C推理判斷題．根據"I don't make them up"和"Welty's people come from afternoons spent visiting with old friends，from walks through the streets of her native Jackson，Miss．，from conversations overheard on a bus．"可知，Welty小說里的人物并非虛構的，他們都來源于現實的生活，故選C．

點評 猜詞技巧：閱讀理解的測試中經常有猜測詞、短語、習語意義的題目，這些詞、短語、習語要么是生詞，要么是熟詞新義，單靠平時積累是不夠的，還要掌握一定的做題技巧．總結如下：
（1）根據構詞法（轉化、合成、派生）進行判斷．
（2）根據文中的定義、解釋猜生詞；利用事例或解釋猜生詞；利用重復解釋的信息猜生詞．
（3）根據上下文的指代關系進行選擇：文章中的代詞it，that，he，him或them可以指上文提到的人或物，其中it和that還可以指一件事．第6題就是屬于對指代關系進行判斷．
（4）根據轉折或對比關系進行判斷：根據上下句的連接詞，如but，however，otherwise等就可以看到前后句在意義上的差別，從而依據某一句的含義，來確定另一句的含義．
（5）根據因果關系進行判斷：俗話說，"有因必有果，有果必有因"．根據原因可以預測結果，根據結果也可以找出原因．
（6）根據同位關系進行判斷：閱讀中有時出現新詞、難詞，后面就跟著一個同位語，對前面的詞進行解釋，有時這種解釋也用連詞"or"連接．
（7）利用標點符號和提示詞猜測詞義．還可以表示轉折、對比或不相干的意義．破折號表示解釋說明．
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