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真题研练11
Task 1:阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
(2016·全国Ⅲ,B)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,whitehaired 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 bigcity friends were amazed at the turn of events that had changed their Big Apple dinner into a Mississippi state reunion(团聚).
“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 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.
【语篇解读】 本文是一篇记叙文,主要讲述了Eudora Welty在纽约请朋友吃饭时发生的有趣的故事。
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1.What happened when Welty was with her friends at the cafe?
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.
答案 A [细节理解题。根据第一段最后一句...another customer was approaching their table.和第三段中的When her dinner partner showed up,she also pulled up a chair.可知两个陌生人加入了她们。故选A。]
2.The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 6 refers to Welty's________.
A.readers B.parties
C.friends D.stories
答案 D [词义猜测题。根据上一句“My friends said:‘Now we believe your stories,’” Welty added.和本句中的动词write.可知,them代替是stories。故选D。]
3.What can we learn about 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 C [推理判断题。根据倒数第二段中的“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.”推知,Welty小说中的人物都来自现实生活。故选C。]
Task 2:词汇积累
1.a couple of 一对;几个
2.settle in坐定;安顿下来,适应于新家
Later,man began to settle in the places where the food and water were plentiful.
后来,人们开始在有充足的食物和水的地方定居下来。
3.approach v.靠近;接近 n.途径;方法;接近
I like her approach to the problem.
我喜欢她解决这个问题的方法。
4.show up 露面,出现
5.make up 整理;化妆;弥补;和解;编造
6.elegant adj.优雅的;雅致的
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7.purple adj.紫色的;辞藻华丽的 n.紫色
8.overhead adj.在头上的 adv.在头顶上;在空中;在高处
Task 3:语法填空
__1__ (sit)on a sofa in her room,Welty,__2__ slim figure in a simple gray dress,looked pleased with this __3__ (explain).
“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 __4__ (visit)with old friends,from walks through the streets of her native Jackson,Miss.,from conversations overheard on a bus.__5__ 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 __6__ (particular)interesting story.
答案 1.Sitting 2.a 3.explanation 4.visiting 5.It 6.particularly
Task 4:短文改错(下面文字有五处错误,请改正)
On one of her to New York several years ago,Eudora Welty decided to take a couple of New York friends out to the dinner.They settled in at comfortable East Side café and within minutes,another customer was approaching their table.
Without second thought,the customer joined in the Welty party.When her dinner partner showed up,she also pulled up a chair.
Task 5:攻克长难句(分析句子结构,尝试翻译成汉语)
1.Heading back downtown toward her hotel,her bigcity friends were amazed at the turn of events that had changed their Big Apple dinner into a Mississippi.
分析:本句为复合句,逗号前的Heading back downtown toward her hotel为现在分词短语作时间状语,定语从句 “that had changed their Big Apple dinner into a Mississippi state reunion(团聚)”在句中修饰先行词the turn of events。
译文:在返回市区宾馆的途中,韦尔蒂的大都市的朋友们惊讶于他们活动的转变,他们的聚会早已由纽约式的宴会变成了密西西比人的地方性团聚。
2.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.
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分析:句中的“Beauticians,bartenders,piano players and people with purple hats”与“Welty's people”构成同位关系,三个from介词短语与come连用,表明小说中人物角色来源的多面性。
译文:Welty小说中的角色——美容师、酒吧招待、钢琴演奏者及那些戴着紫色帽子的人——源自于她与老朋友共度的下午,源自于她在土生土长的密西西比州杰克逊城的大街小巷散步的过程中,还源自于她在公交车上无意间听到的闲谈。
Task 6:经典句式背诵
1.By the time the group got up to leave,it was pouring outside.当他们起身离开的时候,外面下着倾盆大雨。
2.Sitting on a sofa in her room,Welty,a slim figure in a simple gray dress,looked pleased with this explanation.
Welty,一位穿着简单的灰色衣服而且身材苗条的女人,坐在她的房间里的沙发上,看起来对于这种解释很满意。
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