[2017年职称英语 考试 报名]2017年职称英语综合类教材阅读理解易考文章（2）

　　Telling Tales about People

　　One of the most common types of nonfiction,and one that many people enjoy reading,is stories about people's lives.These stories fall into three general categories： autobiography,memoir,and biography.

　　An autobiography is the story of a person's life written by himself or herself.Often it begins with the person's earliest recollections and ends in the present.Autobiography writers may not be entirely objective in the way they present themselves.However,they offer the reader a good look at the way they are and what makes them that way.People as diverse as Benjarmin Franklin and Helen Keller have written autobiographies.1Other writers,such as James Joyce,have written thinly fictionalized accounts of their lives.These are not autobiographies,but they are very close to it.

　　Memoirs,strictly speaking,are autobiographical accounts that focus as much on the events of the times as on the life of the author.2Memoir writers typically use these events as backdrops for their lives.They describe them in detail and discuss their importance.Recently,though,the term memoir seems to be becoming interchangeab1e with autobiography.A memoir nowadays may or may not deal with the outside world.

　　Biographies are factual accounts of someone else's life.In many senses,these may be the hardest of the three types to write.Autobiography writers know the events they write about because they lived them.But biography writers have to gather information from as many different sources as possible.Then they have to decide which facts to include.Their goal is to present a balanced picture of a person,not one that is overly positive or too critical.A fair well-presented biography may take years to research and write.

　　词汇：

　　backdrop n.背景 interchangeable adj.可转换的

　　注释：

　　1.People as diverse as Benjamin Franklin and Helen Keller have written autobiographies.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,strictly speaking,are autobiographical accounts that focus as much on the events of the times as on the life of the author.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。

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