2012职称英语综合类教材新增内容--阅读理解篇

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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