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2021届英语限时训练一 ClassNameNo.Mark 阅读理解： A On one of her trips to New York several years ago, Eudora Welty decided to take a coupleof New York friends out to dinner. They settled in at a comfortable East Side cafe and withinminutes, another customer was approaching their table. “Hey, arent you from Mississippi?” the elegant, white-haired writer remembered beingasked by the stranger. Im from Mississippi too.” Without a second thought, the woman joined the Welty party. When her dinner partnershowed up, she also pulled up a chair. They began telling me all the news of Mississippi/5 Welty said. I didnt know what myNew York friends were thinking. Taxis on a rainy New York night are rarer than sunshine. By the time the group got up toleave, it was pouring outside. Weltys 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 ofevents that had changed their Big Apple dinner into a Mississippi. “My friends said: Now we believe your stories, Welty added. And I said: Now youknow. 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 pleasedwith this explanation. “I dont make them up,” she said of the characters in her fiction these last 50 or so years. “Idont have to. Beauticians, bartenders, piano players and people with purple hats, Weltys people comefrom afternoons spent visiting with old friends, from walks through the streets of her nativeJackson, Miss., from conversations overheard on a bus. It annoys Welty that, at 78, her left earhas now given out. Sometimes, sitting on a bus or a train, she hears only a fragment（片段）of aparticularly interesting story. What happened when Welty was with her friends at the cafe? Two strangers joined her.B. Her childhood friends came in. C. A heavy rain ruined the dinner.D. Some people held a party there. The underlined word them in Paragraph 6 refers to Weltys. A. readersB.