2019职称英语理工A考试教材阅读理解一.doc

2019 职称英语理工 A 考试教材阅读理解（一）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 /'b k,dr?p/ n.背景interchangeable /int?

't?end??bl/ 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。

练习：

1. This passage is mostly about _______.

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________.

A. a memoir

B. an autobiography

C. a work of fiction

D. a biography

3.Autobiography writers are not always

objective because they________.

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________.

5.Diverse means________.

A. able to swim in deep

water B. similar or alike

C. varied or different

D. enjoying poetry

答案与题解：

1.A 本题问的是：这篇文章主要是关于 ?文章第一句说到最普遍的非小说类文学作品类型之一就是一些来描述人们生活的故事，这些

故事大致分为三类：自传

回忆录和传记。然后通篇对这三种类型实行了介绍，所以 A 是准确答案。

2.B 本题问的是：海伦凯勒谢了什么 ?第二段第 5 句话写到：

就像本明杰富兰克林和海伦凯勒一样，各种各样的人们已经写了自传。所以 B 是准确答案。

3.C 本题问的是：自传作者通常不太客观，因为他们 ?第二段提

到：他们给读者提供了一个途径来了解自己比较好的行事风格，所

以答案是 C，他们想展示自己好的一面。

4.A 本题问的是：本文的作者通过何种方式介绍每种类型的非小

说文学作品 ?答案是 A，通过给每个类型实行定义。

5.C 本题问的是： diverse 的意思是 ?其汉语意思为“多种多样的”，所以 C 准确。

译文：

自传是作者记录自己故事的文章。通常自传会以作者最早期的回

忆开始并以对现在情况的总结作为结束。自传的作者也许不会完全客

观地介绍自己。不过，他们给读者提供了一个途径来了解自己比较好的行事风格和为何成就这样的自己。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。其他的作者就像詹姆斯乔伊斯

一样仅仅写了关于自己生活的虚构小说。这些不是自传，但是它们和

自传非常相近。