5.A 细节理解题。根据第一段“another customer was approaching their table”和第三段“the woman joined the Welty party. When her dinner partner showed up, she also pulled up a chair”可知,先后有两个陌生人(一位女士及其同伴)加入了 Welty他们的聚会,故选A。
6.D猜测词义题。划线的them指代前面提到的人或物,根据“Now we believe your stories”可知,them指代的是Wdty写的小说里面的故事,听了Wdty和两个陌生人的有关密西西比的谈话之后,Wdty的朋友相信了Wdty小说里的故事都是来源于生活,故选D。
7.C推理判断题。根据“I don’t make them up”和“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.”可知,Welty小说里的人物并非虚构的,他们都来源于现实的生活,故选C。
这是个比较状语从句,从句的主语是名词短语或较长时可以用倒装,因此这句话原来应该是:……, it's still worth a try, as the knobbly Cats Head is (worth a try ), which is ……(后面都不变),翻译成:尽管它尝起来没什么特别,它仍然值得一试,就像疙疙瘩瘩的猫首石一样,纯粹就是(满足人们的)好奇心而已。