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1、2012年职称英语综合类教材新增内容:阅读理解篇1第一篇TellingTalesaboutPeopleOneofthemostcommontypesofnonfiction,andonethatmanypeopleenjoyreading.isstoriesaboutpeople'slives.Thesestoriesfallintothreegeneralcategories:autobiography,memoir,andbiography.Anautobiographyisthestoryo
2、faperson'slifewrittenbyhimselforherself.Oftenitbeginswiththeperson'searliestrecollectionsandendsinthepresent.Autobiographywritersmaynotbeentirelyobjectiveinthewaytheypresentthemselves.However,theyofferthereaderagoodlookatthewaytheyareandwhatmakesthemt
3、hatway.PeopleasdiverseasBenjarminFranklinandHelenKellerhavewrittenautobiographies.1Otherwriters,suchasJamesJoyce,havewrittenthinlyfictionalizedaccountsoftheirlives・Thesearcnotautobiographies,buttheyarcveryclosetoit.Memoirs,strictlyspeaking,arcautobiog
4、raphicalaccountsthatfocusasmuchonthecventsofthetimesasonthelifeoftheauthor.2Memoirwriterstypicallyusetheseeventsasbackdropsfortheirlives・Theydescribethemindetailanddiscusstheirimportance・Recently,though,thetermmemoirseemstobebecominginterchangeablewit
5、hautobiography.Amemoirnowadaysmayormaynotdealwiththeoutsideworld.Biographiesarefactualaccountsofsomeoneelse'slife.Inmanysenses,thesemaybethehardestofthethreetypestowrite・Autobiographywritersknowtheeventstheywriteaboutbecausetheylivedthem.Butbiographyw
6、ritershavetogatherinformationfromasmanydifferentsourcesaspossible・Thentheyhavetodecidewhichfactstoinclude・Theirgoalistopresentabalancedpictureofaperson,notonethatisoverlypositiveortoocritical.Afairwell-presentedbiographymaytakeyearstoresearchandwrite.
7、词汇：backdrop/'back,drop/n•背景interchangeable/intoVend3obl/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，各种各样的人们己经写了口传。2.Memoirs,strictlyspeaking,areautobiographicalaccountsthatfocusasmuchonthce
8、ventsofthetimesasonthelifeoftheauthor.严格意义上来讲,回忆录是既注重作者本身的生活经历，也注重其所处的吋代所发生的事件的自传性的描述。练习：LThispassageismostlyabout・A.thecharacteristicsofautobiographies,memoirsandbiographiesB.famousautobiographiesC・whybiographycanbedifficulttowriteD.differenc
