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  3. I was addressing a small gathering in a suburban Virginia living room—a women’s group that had invited men to join them. Through

I was addressing a small gathering in a suburban Virginia living room—a women’s group that had invited men to join them. Through

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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 文章最后一段介绍反映当前夫妻间谈话模式不同的典型漫画场景(stereotypical cartoon scene)，早餐桌上，丈夫埋头看报，妻子欲言不能，这可以说是对前文内容的一个小结。根据承上启下的原则，下义内容应与此相关，并对其作进一步描述，由此确定B正确。C项的干扰性较大，有关离婚率的信息出现在第3段，作者提到离婚率只是为了证明该谈话模式造成的影响极大，需提高重视，离婚率高的原因非作者要论述的重点，因此排除C。
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