www.ks5u.com为明学校学生限时训练 高三英语阅读每日一练 使用时间: 组编人: 阅读限时练9班级: 姓名: 小组: 分数: 卷面: A卷 Task1 (2016全国，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，arent you from Mississippi？” the elegant，whitehaired writer remembered being asked by the stranger.“Im 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 didnt 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.Weltys 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 dont make them up，” she said of the characters in her fiction these last 50 or so years.“I dont have to.”Beauticians，bartenders，piano players and people with purple hats，Weltys 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.1What happened when Welty was with her friends at the cafe?ATwo strangers joined her. BHer childhood friends came in.CA heavy rain ruined the dinner. DSome people held a party there.2The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 6 refers to Weltys_.AReaders BParties Cfriends Dstories3What can we learn about the characters in Weltys fiction?AThey live in big cities. BThey are mostly women.CThey come from real life. DThey are pleasure seekers.Task 2：词汇积累1a couple of _ 2settle in_3approach v_ 4show up_5make up _ 6elegant adj._7purple adj._ n_8overhead adj._ adv._Task 3：语法填空Dali was _1_ of the most popular of modern artists.The Pompidou Centre in Paris is showing _2_ respect and admiration for the artist and his _3_ (power) personality with an exhibition _4_ (bring) together over 200 paintings，sculptures，drawings and more.Among the works and masterworks _5_ exhibition the visitor will find the _6_ (good) pieces，most importantly The Persistence of Memory.Task 4：短文改错(下面文字有五处错误，请改正)The visitor will enter World of Dali through an egg and is met at the beginning，the world of birth.The exhibition follow a path of time and subject with the visitor exiting through the brain.The fine selection of the major work was done in close collaboration (合作)with the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid，Spain，and with contributions from the other institutions like the Salvador Dali Museum in St.Petersburg，Florida.Task 5：攻克长难句(分析句子结构，尝试翻译成汉语)1Heading 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_作_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_。译文：_2Beauticians，bartenders，piano players and people with purple hats，Weltys 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.分析：句中的“Beauticians，bartenders，piano players and people with purple hats”与“Weltys people”构成_关系，三个from介词短语与_连用，表明小说中人物角色来源的多面性。译文：_