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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
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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2011-01-07
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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. 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 taXk 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 US
D、a brief introduction to the political scientist Andrew Hacker
答案
B
解析
推断题。(Lines 1-3,Para.5)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.简言之,能充分体现目前这种危机的是一幅老套的卡通漫画:一位男士一边吃早餐,一边埋头看报纸,而妻子生气地盯着报纸的背面,就想说话。文章接下来会安排的内容当然与最后一部分关系密切。最后一段的关键词“stereotypical cartoon scene”应该较容易帮我们选出B项来。如选C项,则冲淡了本文主旨,呈现一文多个主题的局面。
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