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If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, it may explain at least one of their shared beliefs: Men and women can’t be real

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问题     If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, it may explain at least one of their shared beliefs: Men and women can’t be real friends. Many may point to the jealousy that plagues many rational people when a significant other befriends someone of the opposite sex. Boil it down to the inherent differences between the sexes. It just can’t be done. Is it right?
    Wrong, say relationship experts. "The belief that men and women can’t be friends comes from another era in which women were at home and men were in the workplace, and the only way they could get together was for romance," explains Linda Sapadin, Ph. [D], a psychologist in private practice in Valley Stream, New York. "Now they work together and have sports interests together and socialize together." This cultural shift is encouraging psychologists, sociologists and communications experts to put forth a new message: though it may be tricky, men and women can successfully become close friends. What’s more, there are good reasons for them to do so.
    Society has long singled out romance as the prototypical male-female relationship because it spawns babies and keeps the life cycle going; cross-sex friendship, as researchers call it, has been either ignored or trivialized. We have rules for how to act in romantic relationships (flirt, date, get married, have kids) and even same-sex friendships (boys relate by doing activities together, girls by talking and sharing). But there are so few platonic male-female friendships on display in our culture that we’re at a loss even to define these relationships.
    A certain 1989 film starring Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal convinced a nation of moviegoers that romance always comes between men and women, making true friendship impossible. "When Harry Met Sally set the potential for male-female friendship back about 25 years," says Michael Monsour, Ph. D., assistant professor of communications at the University of Colorado at Denver and author of Women and Men as Friends: Relationships across the Life Span in the 21st Century. "Almost every time you see a male-female friendship, it winds up turning into romance."
    In 1989, Don O’Meara, Ph. D., a sociology professor at the University of Cincinnati-Raymond Walters College, published a landmark study in the journal Sex Roles on the top impediments to cross-sex friendship. Among several challenges he pointed out in his research, society may not be entirely ready for friendships between men and women that have no sexual subtext. People with close friends of the opposite sex are often barraged with nudging, winking and skepticism: "Are you really just friends?" This is especially true, says O’Meara, of older adults, who grew up when men and women were off-limits to each other until marriage.
What is the main idea of paragraph 4?
选项 A、The difficulties of cross-sex friendship stem partly from the media.
B、Movie and television have set different rules for men and women to interact.
C、Television has not helped to promote cross-sex friendships.
D、Some book authors play a negative role in people accepting cross-sex friendships.
答案A
解析 段落主旨题；提问方式非常直接，我们对第四段进行阅读和归纳就可以选出答案。而这个段落的写作也比较规范，段落的第一句话就直接给出了段落大意。也就是将男女之间成为朋友困难的原因归咎于媒体的责任。在媒体上，我们看不到男女之间纯洁的友谊，自然也就造成了现实生活中男女之间做朋友的难度。比较阅读4个选项，A选项的表达是正确的，是我们需要寻找的答案。B选项将段落所列举的movie和television进行比较，两者都在原段落中出现，但是两者之间的比较关系是不存在的。C选项涉及的是原文的一个方面，是不全面的，属于片面性的干扰选项。D选项对原文的理解出现了偏差，原文引用了一个图书作者，同时也是传播学副教授的意见，而D选项就此做出的对于图书作者的分析是原文中没有出现的，比较容易排除。
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