'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(片断) of a particularly interesting story.

　　【语篇解读】　本文是一篇记叙文。全文讲述了著名作家Eudora Welty在纽约的朋友聚会上，遇到了两位陌生人。大家的交流对她的写作影响很大。她经常收集人们的所见所闻，写成自己的一篇篇文章。

　　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.

　　【解析】　细节理解题。根据第三段"...the woman joined the Welty party.When her dinner partner showed up，she also pulled up a chair."可知，除了那位陌生的女士，要跟她一起吃饭的人也加入到了Welty的饭局中。B项说"她儿时的朋友加入进来了"，文中只是说几个纽约的朋友；C项说"一场大雨毁掉了晚餐"，但是文中提到下大雨是在他们吃完饭离开的时候，吃饭的时候并未受大雨的影响；D项说"一些人在那里举行了聚会"，文中并未提及。

　　【答案】　A

　　2．The underlined word "them" in Paragraph 6 refers to Welty's .

A．readers　　　　　　 B．parties