2020 年职称英语卫生类阅读理解模拟题
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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
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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.
练习：
1. _____________________________ This passage is mostly about _____________________________ .
A. autobiographies 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
the characteristics of ，memoirs，and
4. ____ The writer introduces each category in the passage by . A. defining it B. giving an example
C. explaining why it is hard to write D. telling when people first began writing it 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。
2020年职称英语卫生类阅读理解模拟题(3)
