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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 ab
Telling Tales about People One of the most common types of nonfiction, and one that many people enjoy reading, is stories ab
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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 Benjamin Franklin and Helen Keller have written autobiographies. Other 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. 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 interchangeable 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.
Autobiography writers are not always objective because they______.
选项
A、want to present themselves in a good light
B、constantly compete with biography writers
C、have trouble remembering the good times
D、feel they have to make up details to make their books sell
答案
A
解析
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……因此答案是A,他们想展示自己好的一面。
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