2016综合B阅读理解原文与译文.docxVIP

????????2016年职称英语考试教材综合类?????第四部分?阅读理解?第一篇?Telling?Tales?about?People??讲述关于人们的故事?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?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.?译文：第一篇?讲述关于人们的故事??最普遍的非小说类文学作品类型之一就是一些描述人们生活的故事，并且很多人喜欢阅读这?类作品。这些故事大致分为三类：自传、回忆录和传记。???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。然而，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