第40讲阅读理解：Telling Tales about People（二） 职称英语综合B精讲课件培训资料.ppt

2014年 职称英语综合C 阅读理解 主讲老师：叶晓 Telling Tales about People讲述关于人的故事 （第一段） One of the most common types of nonfiction（n.非小说类文学作品）, and one that many people enjoy reading, is stories about peoples lives. These stories fall into（分成） three general（adj.大致的） categories（类型）: autobiography（自传）, memoir（回忆录）, and biography（传记）.　　 （第二段） 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.　 （第三段）　Memoirs, strictly speaking, are autobiographical（自传体的） accounts（叙述） that focus as much on the events of the times as on the life of the author. Memoir 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.　　　 （第四段）Biographies （传记）are factual（事实的） accounts（叙述） 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. （第三段）Memoirs, strictly