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Betty and Harold have been married for years. But one thing still puzzled (困扰) old Harold. How is it that he can leave Betty and

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问题     Betty and Harold have been married for years. But one thing still puzzled (困扰) old Harold. How is it that he can leave Betty and her friend Joan sitting on the sofa, talking, go out to a ballgame, come back three and a half hours later, and they’re still sitting on the sofa? Talking?
    What in the world, Harold wonders, do they have to talk about?
    Betty shrugs. Talk? We’re friends.
    Researching this matter called friendship, psychologist Lillian Rubin spent two years interviewing more than two hundred women and men. No matter what their age, their job, their sex, the results were completely clear: women have more friendships than men, and the difference in the content and the quality of those friendships is "marked and unmistakable."
    More than two-thirds of the single men Rubin interviewed could not name a best friend. Those who could were likely to name a woman. Yet three-quarters of the single women had no problem naming a best friend, and almost always it was a woman. More married men than women named their wife/husband as a best friend, more trusted person, or the one they would turn to in time of emotional distress (感情危机). "Most women," says Rubin, "identified (认定) at least one, usually more, trusted friends to whom they could turn in a troubled moment, and they spoke openly about the importance of these relationships in their lives."
    "In general," writes Rubin in her new book," women’s friendships with each other rest on shared emotions and support, but men’s relationships are marked by shared activities. "For the most part, Rubin says, interactions (交往) between men are emotionally controlled—a good fit with the social requirements of "manly behavior."
    "Even when a man is said to be a best friend," Rubin writes," the two share little about their innermost feelings. Whereas a woman’s closest female friend might be the first to tell her to leave a failing marriage, it wasn’t unusual to hear a man say he didn’t know his friend’s marriage was in serious trouble until he appeared one night asking if he could sleep on the sofa."
According to the text, which type of behavior is NOT expected of a man by society? ______.
选项 A、Ending his marriage without good reason.
B、Spending too much time with his friends.
C、Complaining about his marriage trouble.
D、Going out to ballgames too often.
答案C
解析 本题要求考生根据短文内容，指出社会并不期待男人有哪种行为。答案依据第六段：but men’s relationships are marked by shared activities．For the most part,…interactions between men are emotionally controlled—a good fit with the social requirements of“manly behavior．”意思是：“男人之间的关系是以参加共同的活动为特点的。大部分情形下，男人之间的交往在感情方面是处于控制状态的——这也非常符合社会对于‘男子汉行为’的要求。”最后一段又说男人对于其朋友的婚姻状况往往一无所知，所以答案为C选项Complaining about his marriage trouble意思是“抱怨他婚姻中出现的问题”。
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