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I was addressing a small gathering in a suburban Virginia living room—a women’ s group that had invited men to join them. Throug
I was addressing a small gathering in a suburban Virginia living room—a women’ s group that had invited men to join them. Throug
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2016-01-05
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问题
I was addressing a small gathering in a suburban Virginia living room—a women’ s group that had invited men to join them. Throughout the evening, one man had been particularly talkative, frequently offering ideas and anecdotes,while his wife sat silently beside him on the couch. Toward the end of the evening, I commented that women frequently complain that their husbands don’t talk to them. This man quickly nodded in agreement He gestured toward his wife and said, "She’s the talker in our family." The room burst into laughter; the man looked puzzled and hurt. "It’ s true," he explained. "When I come home from work I have nothing to say. If she didn’t keep the conversation going, we’d spend the whole evening in silence."
This episode crystallizes the irony that although American men tend to talk more than women in public situations, they often talk less at home. And this pattern is
wreaking havoc
with marriage.
The pattern was observed by political scientist Andrew Hacker in the late 1970s. Sociologist Catherine Kohler Riessman reports in her new book Divorce Talk that most of the women she interviewed—but only a few of the men—gave lack of communication as the reason for their divorces. Given the current divorce rate of nearly 50 percent, that amounts to millions of cases in the United States every year—a virtual epidemic of failed conversation.
In my own research, complaints from women about their husbands most often focused not on tangible inequities such as having given up the chance for a career to accompany a husband to his, or doing far more than their share of daily life-support work like cleaning, cooking and social arrangements. Instead, they focused on communication: "He doesn’t listen to me." "He doesn’t talk to me." I found, as Hacker observed years before, that most wives want their husbands to be, first and foremost, conversational partners, but few husbands share this expectation of their wives.
In short, the image that best represents the current crisis is the stereotypical cartoon scene of a man sitting at the breakfast table with a newspaper held up in front of his face, while a woman glares at the back of it, wanting to talk.
In the following part immediately after this text, the author will most probably focus on
选项
A、a vivid account of the new book Divorce Talk.
B、a detailed description of the stereotypical cartoon.
C、other possible reasons for a high divorce rate in the U.S..
D、a brief introduction to the political scientist Andrew Hacker.
答案
B
解析
结构题。本题考查的是对全文主旨要义以及对全文篇章结构的理解,要求根据文章内容选出作者接下来可能会重点论述的部分。从整体结构来看,全文主要论述了男女性别交流模式差别对婚姻的影响。在最后一段里,作者描述了一幅能代表这种婚姻危机的典型漫画。这一漫画的描述应该起到承上启下的作用。根据篇章的连贯性和一致性等语段特征,作者很可能在后续的段落里继续围绕漫画特点展开描述。因此B项为正确答案,即“对典型漫画进行详细的描述”。其他选项均不符合语篇结构特点。A项为“生动地叙述《漫话离婚》一书”。C项为“导致美国高离婚率的其他可能原因”。D项指的是“简单介绍政治学家Andrew Hacker”。
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