2019職稱英語(yǔ)理工A考試教材閱讀理解一

2019職稱英語(yǔ)理工A考試教材閱讀理解（一）TellingTalesaboutPeopleOneofthemostcommontypesofnonfiction,andonethatmanypeopleenjoyreading,isstoriesaboutpeople'slives.Thesestoriesfallintothreegeneralcategories：autobiography,memoir,andbiography.Anautobiographyisthestoryofaperson'slifewrittenbyhimselforherself.Oftenitbeginswiththeperson'searliestrecollectionsandendsinthepresent.Autobiographywritersmaynotbeentirelyobjectiveinthewaytheypresentthemselves.However,theyofferthereaderagoodlookatthewaytheyareandwhatmakesthemthatway.PeopleasdiverseasBenjarminFranklinandHelenKellerhavewrittenautobiographies.1Otherwriters,suchasJamesJoyce，havewrittenthinlyfictionalizedaccountsoftheirlives.Thesearenotautobiographies，buttheyareveryclosetoit.Memoirs,strictlyspeaking,areautobiographicalaccountsthatfocusasmuchontheeventsofthetimesasonthelifeoftheauthor.2Memoirwriterstypicallyusetheseeventsasbackdropsfortheirlives.Theydescribethemindetailanddiscusstheirimportance.Recently，though，thetermmemoirseemstobebecominginterchangeab1ewithautobiography.Amemoirnowadaysmayormaynotdealwiththeoutsideworld.Biographiesarefactualaccountsofsomeoneelse'slife.Inmanysenses，thesemaybethehardestofthethreetypestowrite.Autobiographywritersknowtheeventstheywriteaboutbecausetheylivedthem.Butbiographywritershavetogatherinformationfromasmanydifferentsourcesaspossible.Thentheyhavetodecidewhichfactstoinclude.Theirgoalistopresentabalancedpictureofaperson，notonethatisoverlypositiveortoocritical.Afairwell-presentedbiographymaytakeyearstoresearchandwrite.詞匯：backdrop/'bk,dr?p/n.背景interchangeable/int?'t?end??bl/adj.可變換的說明：1.PeopleasdiverseasBenjaminFranklinandHelenKellerhavewrittenautobiographies.

就像本杰明富蘭克林和海倫凱勒相同，各樣各樣的人們已經(jīng)寫了自傳。2.Memoirs

，strictlyspeaking

，areautobiographicalaccountsthatfocusasmuchontheeventsofthetimesasonthelifeoftheauthor.嚴(yán)格意義上來講，回憶錄是既側(cè)重作者本身的生活經(jīng)歷，也側(cè)重其所處的時(shí)代所發(fā)生的事件的自傳性的描述。練習(xí)：1.Thispassageismostlyabout_______.A.thecharacteristicsofautobiographiesbiographiesB.famousautobiographiesC.whybiographycanbedifficulttowrite

，memoirs，andD.differencesbetweenautobiographiesandmemoirs2.HelenKellerwrote________.A.amemoirB.anautobiographyC.aworkoffictionD.abiographyAutobiographywritersarenotalwaysobjectivebecausethey________.A.feeltheyhavetomakeupdetailstomaketheirbookssellB.constantlycompetewithbiographywritersC.wanttopresentthemselvesinagoodlightD.havetroublerememberingthegoodtimesThewriterintroduceseachcategoryinthepassageby________.Diversemeans________.A.abletoswimindeepwaterB.similaroralikeC.variedordifferentD.enjoyingpoetry答案與題解：A本題問的是：這篇文章主若是關(guān)于?文章第一句說到最寬泛的非小說類文學(xué)作品種類之一就是一些來描述人們生活的故事，這些故事大體分為三類：自傳回憶錄和傳記。爾后通篇對(duì)這三各種類實(shí)行了介紹，所以A是正確答案。B本題問的是：海倫凱勒謝了什么?第二段第5句話寫到：就像本明杰富蘭克林和海倫凱勒相同，各樣各樣的人們已經(jīng)寫了自傳。所以B是正確答案。C本題問的是：自傳作者平時(shí)不太客觀，因?yàn)樗麄?第二段提到：他們給讀者供應(yīng)了一個(gè)路子來認(rèn)識(shí)自己比較好的行事風(fēng)格，所以答案是C，他們想顯現(xiàn)自己好的一面。A本題問的是：本文的作者經(jīng)過何種方式介紹每各種類的非小說文學(xué)作品?答案是A，經(jīng)過給每個(gè)種類實(shí)行定義。C本題問的是：diverse的意思是?其漢語(yǔ)意思為“多種多樣的”，所以C正確。譯文：自傳是作者記錄自己故事的文章。平時(shí)自傳會(huì)以作者最早期的回憶開始并以對(duì)現(xiàn)