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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 Slide café and within minutes, another customer was approaching their table.

限司-公的慧软技2586途科优有元1f49学东升网广件 “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 friends 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 soda 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?

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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’s _____.

A.readers B parties C.friends D stories

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

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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.A 细节题。题目关键词为 “welty&café”，可定位到文章第一段，并由之后的对话可知，两个陌生人加入他们。

6. D 本题为推断题。题目关键词为”them”，可定位到文章第六段，由句意可知， “them”指 “stories”。

7. C 本题为推断题。题目关键词为 “characters”，可定位到文章倒数第二段，并由下一段可知，小说中的人物来自old friends，streets，bus，可推断出小说中的人物都是来源于现实。