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2012年职称英语阅读理解（综合类）第一篇 (新增)Telling Tales about People 第二篇 Outside -the-classroom Learning Makes a Big Difference 第三篇 Milosevics Death 第四篇 Feast on Turkey and Good Wishes at Thanksgiving 第五篇 Sino—Japan Animosity Lessens 第六篇 TV Shows and Long Bus Trips 第七篇 Modern Sun Worshippers 第八篇 （新增）The Changing Middle Class 第九篇 Single-parent Kids Do Best 第十篇 （新增）A Letter from Alan 第十一篇 （新增）The Development of Ballet 第十二篇 Smuggling 第十三篇 The Barbie Dolls 第十四篇 Sleep 第十五篇 Orbital Space Plane 第十六篇 （新增）The Sahara 1 Telling Tales about People One of the most common types of nonfiction, and one that many people enjoy reading, is stories about peoples lives. These stories fall into three general categories: autobiography, memoir, and biography. An autobiography is the story of a persons life written by himself or herself. Often it begins with the persons 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 elses 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 wr