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Men and women use the Internet in completely different ways, and have distinct styles of writing emails, according to new resear

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问题    Men and women use the Internet in completely different ways, and have distinct styles of writing emails, according to new research.
   "There are pretty good odds at being able to guess the gender of someone just by reading their emails," said David Silver, an assistant professor in the school of Communications at the University of Washington. "Many studies have found that men using email tend to supply answers that shut down the dialogue. Women are more prepared to open up the discussion. They’re also more prepared in a chatroom to say ’I don’t, know. What does everyone else think?’"
   Male messages tend to offer solutions to problems. Women tend to keep conversations going and ask more questions. They aren’t afraid to admit ignorance.
   A study by Dr Susan Herring, a linguistic expert at Indiana University, has also shown that men tend to express strong opinions. By contrast, women tend to use diplomatic language along with questions, offers, suggestions and polite expressions.
   Silver said a huge change had occurred in global Internet use in the past few years as women find their place in a medium previously dominated by men." Many women in the mid-90s lost interest in the Internet by slang," Silver said. "The old Internet chatrooms were racist, and often sexist. So women simply started their own chatrooms. "Silver pointed to a series of studies into the differences between male and female behavior Online.
   One study showed women were a lot less status-oriented (强调身份的) in their use of the Internet. In one chatroom for academics it was noticed that female undergraduates, graduates are all treated each other equally.
   In the same chatroom, researchers noticed women were a lot quicker to share information.
   The news comes as the gender balance in Internet use shifts towards women.
   In the UK, women account for 40 percent of those online at present and this is expected to rise to 60 percent by 2005.
   In the United States, a recent study shows that 51 percent of Internet users are women.
What is the difference between women and men in using the Internet?
选项 A、Men using email tend to ask for answers that shut down the dialogue. Women are more prepared to open up the discussion.
B、Male messages tend to offer solutions to problems. Women tend to stop conversations going and ask no questions.
C、Men show that they are ignorant of everything. Women aren’t afraid to admit ignorance.
D、Men tend to express strong opinions. By contrast, women tend to use mild language along with questions, offers, suggestions and polite expressions.
答案D
解析 本题考查细节理解。说明文的主要特点是细节烦琐，阅读过程中要关注每个细节。本文的主题是介绍男性和女性在上网过程中存在的差异，所以要重点读懂每个细微的区别。而且还要注意命题者常用的方法“声东击西”。男性和女性的总区别是男性知道得多、处于主动；女性知道得少、处于被动。选项A男性寻找答案让对话结束不符合原文、选项B女性总问问题中断谈话不符合原文、选项C男性无知不符合原文，选项D男性说话强硬而女性说话艺术符合原文。
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