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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. 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.
What is most wives’ main expectation of their husbands?
选项 A、Talking to them.
B、Trusting them.
C、Supporting their careers.
D、Sharing housework.
答案A
解析 本题考查考生对文章具体细节的理解和推断。题干的意思是“多数妻子都期望丈夫们能。”全文反复出现的主题就是男性在家庭里不愿与其交流，从整体上看答案就是选项[A]“与她们交流”。具体来说，在第一段的导入性小故事里面，作者评论说女人们经常埋怨她们的丈夫不和她们说话(第三句)，另外在第四段里，作者发现多数的妻子都最希望丈夫能成为交流的对象(第四句)。其他选项均与原文不符。选项[B]指的是希望丈夫们“信任她们”。选项[C]指的是希望丈夫们能“支持她们的事业”。选项[D]的意思是希望丈夫们能“分担家务活”。这些选项里提到的事情都不是经常引发妻子们不满的事情。
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