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 ofMississippi," 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.

6．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.

7 .The underlined word "them" in Paragraph 6 refers to Welty's__

　A.readers B parties C.friends D stories

8. What can we learn about the characters in Welty's fiction?

A. They live in big citiesB．They are mostly women

C. They come from real lifeD．They are pleasure seekers

9.When Eudora Welty go on a trip to New York?

A. last year B. this year C. yesterday D. several years ago

10. Eudora Welty and his friends decided to_________.

A. go swimming B. out to dinner C. go shopping D. go hiking

第二节 (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)

　　Everyone knows that fish is good for health.36 But it seems that many people don't cook fish at home. Americans eat only about fifteen pounds of fish per person per year, but we eat twice as much fish in restaurants as at home. Buying, storing, and cooking fish isn't difficult. 37This text is about how to buy and cook fish in an easy way.

　　38 Fresh fish should smell sweet: you should feel that you're standing at the ocean's edge. Any fishy or strong smell means the fish isn't fresh. 39 When you have bought a fish and arrive home, you'd better store the fish in the refrigerator if you don't cook it immediately, but fresh fish should be stored in your fridge for only a day or two. Frozen fish isn't as tasty as the fresh one.

There are many common methods used to cook fish. 40 First,clean it and season it with your choice of spices.Put the whole fish on a plate and steam it in a steam pot for 8 to 10 minutes if it weighs about one pound.(A larger one will take more time.)Then,it's ready to serve.

A.Do not buy it. B.The easiest is to steam it. C.This is how you can do it.