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27 Personal history

Autobiograp

How is an autobiography different from a biography?

Complete the text with words from the box.
accurate appointments blank confront feelings forget
hoarded myths reports traces
Joan Bakewell
Autobiography is a curiously naked business. It requires intimacy with your own (I) feelings
which you might have been avoiding for years. You have to (2)
your guilt and fears,
. Then you must weigh up
dredging from deep down things you might rather (3)
in any objective sense, or simply memories fonnulated from
whether they are (4)
family (5)
Any life as long as mine has left a multitude of (6)
. The most valuable proved to
be those nearest home. Ever since I was a child, I have (7) scraps of paper, childish
sketches, soppy poems, notes from girls in my class at school, exam papers, school (8)
and boxes and boxes of letters.
Then there are the diaries: the daily record of events and (9) The casual entries in
numerous little pocket diaries, thrown casually into a big box at each New Year, allowed me to pinpoint,
though only roughly — there are many (10). pages — what I was doing in any particular
year of my life.

M s Which of these words are possible replacements for the words in italics in 2.2?

Word in 2.2 Possible replacements
regard
think about
1 weigh up consider decitM
2 formulated created
prepared
originating
put together
countless
many
numerous
3 a multitude of a crowd of
4 valuable expensive important precious useful
5 scraps bits
crumbs fragments small pieces
2.4 Complete these sentences with words related to the words in capital letters at the ends of the lines.
1 Many people read autobiographies out of
CURIOUS
2 I've read the ex-president's autobiography several times. He describes the many
experiences of his life.
FORGET
3 of any autobiography is that it should be honest
An essential
REQUIRE
of information in autobiographies.
4 is very difficult to check the ACCURATE
It
5 Authors often write about past behaviour that still makes them feel
GUILT
6 Authors who are FORGET
may not include important past events.
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