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1、2012职称英语综合类教材新增内容:阅读理解篇第一篇 TellingTalesaboutPeople Oneofthemostcommontypesofnonfiction,andonethatmanypeopleenjoyreading,isstoriesaboutpeople'slives.Thesestoriesfallintothreegeneralcategories:autobiography,memoir,andbiography. Anautobiographyisthestory
2、ofaperson'slifewrittenbyhimselforherself.Oftenitbeginswiththeperson'searliestrecollectionsandendsinthepresent.Autobiographywritersmaynotbeentirelyobjectiveinthewaytheypresentthemselves.However,theyofferthereaderagoodlookatthewaytheyareandwhatmakesthemth
3、atway.PeopleasdiverseasBenjarminFranklinandHelenKellerhavewrittenautobiographies.1Otherwriters,suchasJamesJoyce,have writtenthinlyfictionalizedaccountsoftheirlives.Thesearenotautobiographies,buttheyareveryclosetoit. Memoirs,strictlyspeaking,areautobiog
4、raphicalaccountsthatfocusasmuchontheeventsofthetimesasonthelifeoftheauthor.2Memoirwriterstypicallyusetheseeventsasbackdropsfortheirlives.Theydescribethemindetailanddiscusstheirimportance.Recently,though,thetermmemoirseemstobebecominginterchangeab1ewitha
5、utobiography.Amemoirnowadaysmayormaynotdealwiththeoutsideworld. Biographiesarefactualaccountsofsomeoneelse'slife.Inmanysenses,thesemay bethehardestofthethreetypestowrite.Autobiographywritersknowtheeventstheywriteaboutbecausetheylivedthem.Butbiographywr
6、itershavetogatherinformationfromasmanydifferentsourcesaspossible.Thentheyhavetodecidewhichfactstoinclude.Theirgoalistopresentabalancedpictureofaperson,notonethatisoverlypositiveortoocritical.Afairwell-presentedbiographymaytakeyearstoresearchandwrite. 词
7、汇: backdrop/'bæk,drɔp/n.背景interchangeable/intə'tʃendʒəbl/adj.可转换的 注释: 1.PeopleasdiverseasBenjaminFranklinandHelenKellerhavewrittenautobiographies.就像本杰明•富兰克林和海伦•凯勒一样,各种各样的人们已经写了自传。 2.Memoirs,strictlyspeaking,areautobiographicalaccountsthatfocusasmuch
8、ontheeventsofthetimesasonthelifeoftheauthor.严格意义上来讲,回忆录是既注重作者本身的生活经历,也注重其所处的时代所发生的事件的自传性的描述。 练习: 1.Thispassageismostlyabout_______. A.thecharacteristicsofautobiographies,memoirs,andbiographies B.famousautobiographies C.whybi
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