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 文章介绍一位女作家请纽约的朋友吃饭时发生的故事，Welty是一位年龄较大的作家，她来自密西西比，Welty的作品都是来自于现实的生活，有很强的现实性．

解答 5-7 ADC
5．A 细节理解题，根据第一段"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"可知先后有两个陌生人，一位女生及其同伴加入了Welty的聚会，故选A．
6．D 词义猜测题，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的小说里的故事，听了Welty和两个陌生人的关密西西比的谈话后，Welty的朋友相信其小说里的故事都是来源于生活的，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 visiting with old friends，from walks through the streets of her native Jackson，Miss．，from conversations 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．

点评 猜词技巧：阅读理解的测试中经常有猜测词、短语、习语意义的题目，这些词、短语、习语要么是生词，要么是熟词新义，单靠平时积累是不够的，还要掌握一定的做题技巧．总结如下：
（1）根据构词法（转化、合成、派生）进行判断．
（2）根据文中的定义、解释猜生词；利用事例或解释猜生词；利用重复解释的信息猜生词．
（3）根据上下文的指代关系进行选择：文章中的代词it，that，he，him或them可以指上文提到的人或物，其中it和that还可以指一件事．第6题就是属于对指代关系进行判断．
（4）根据转折或对比关系进行判断：根据上下句的连接词，如but，however，otherwise等就可以看到前后句在意义上的差别，从而依据某一句的含义，来确定另一句的含义．
（5）根据因果关系进行判断：俗话说，"有因必有果，有果必有因"．根据原因可以预测结果，根据结果也可以找出原因．
（6）根据同位关系进行判断：阅读中有时出现新词、难词，后面就跟着一个同位语，对前面的词进行解释，有时这种解释也用连词"or"连接．
（7）利用标点符号和提示词猜测词义．还可以表示转折、对比或不相干的意义．破折号表示解释说明．
常见问题形式有：
（1）The word"…"in Line …means/can be best replaced by …
（2）As used in the passage，the phrase"…"suggests…
（3）From the passage，we can infer that the word/phrase/the sentence"…"is/refers to/means…
（4）The word"…"is closest in meaning to …