atmosphere is gloomy and threatening. "One of us will die this year." "Because we have gone walking in a graveyard (墓地) on the first day of the New Year." and "a black cat across their path" all reflect it will be a bad ending. Not because she has some problems with her lung, but because her life does not bring her happiness with some disharmonious things happening.

语篇解读：本文主要介绍了爱丽丝·门罗的作品Too Much Happiness的主要人物及主要内容。

　　1．According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

　　A．Sophia was born at a wrong time and was mentally ill.

　　B．Women were not fairly treated in Europe in Sophia's time.

　　C．Sophia loved travelling around Europe to meet different people.

　　D．Unmarried women were forbidden to learn mathematics at that time.

　　解析：选B　推理判断题。根据文章第三段倒数第二句中的"not a young Russian woman who was unmarried could leave the country"可知，妇女的出行在当时是受限制的，由此可推知，妇女在当时受到不公平的对待。

　　2．What can we conclude from Sophia's experience?

　　A．It's hard for an educated woman to achieve success in Europe at that time.

　　B．Russian women were not allowed to go abroad without a white marriage.

　　C．Married women could travel freely across Europe in the late nineteenth century.

　　D．Seeing a black cat across the path would bring people to death in the end.

　　解析：选A　推理判断题。根据文章第三段第一句"The story tells the typical struggle of an intellectual woman to achieve success and happiness."可推知，在当时的欧洲，知识女性要获得成功是很不容易的。

　　3．The underlined phrase "the fact" in Paragraph 4 most probably refers to the fact that ________.

　　A．her husband refuses to divorce

　　B．she can't teach in university

　　C．she falls in love with Maxsim

　　D．Maxsim doesn't want to marry her

　　解析：选D　词义猜测题。根据文章第四段最后一句"... the man does not want to marry her ..."可推知，Maxsim并不想娶她。

　　4．In a newspaper, this passage is most probably in the section of ________.

　　A．Entertainment　　　　　 　B．Travel

　　C．Career D．Culture

解析：选D　推理判断题。文章主要介绍Alice Munro的作品Too Much Happiness，