学位英语

2014年职称英语考试综合类阅读理解测验：

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.

练习：

1. This passage is mostly about A .

A. the characteristics of autobiographies，memoirs，and biographies

B. famous autobiographies

C. why biography can be difficult to write

D. differences between autobiographies and memoirs

2. Helen Keller wrote B .

A. a memoir B. an autobiography

C. a work of fiction D. a biography

3. Autobiography writers are not always objective because they C .

A. feel they have to make up details to make their books sell

B. constantly compete with biography writers

C. want to present themselves in a good light

D. have trouble remembering the good times

4. The writer introduces each category in the passage by A .

A. defining it B. giving an example

C. explaining why it is hard to write

D. telling when people first began writing it

5. Diverse means C .

A. able to swim in deep water B. similar or alike

C. varied or different D. enjoying poetry

编辑推荐：

2014年职称英语考试综合类阅读理解测验

2014年职称英语考试综合类A级补全短文测验

2014年职称英语考试卫生类A级补全短文测验

2014年职称英语考试理工类A级补全短文测验

更多>>职称英语考试模拟试题

更多关注：职称英语教材 职称英语报名 职称英语零基础通关

（责任编辑：wrr）

共2页,当前第1页  第一页  前一页  下一页