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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.
All of the following are true EXCEPT_________.
选项 A、men tend to talk more in public than women
B、nearly 50 percent of recent divorces are caused by failed conversation
C、women attach much importance to communication between couples
D、a female tends to be more talkative at home than her spouse
答案B
解析 本题要求考生根据文章段落细节信息进行总结概括，选择出与文章内容不符的选项。由 于选项涉及的内容比较零散，需要考生注意理解具体的信息。选项[A]的意思是“与女性相比，男性在公共场合说得更多”。这一信息与第一段的内容一致，因此可以排除掉。选项[B]的意思是“最近接近50％的离婚事件是由于无法沟通导致的”。这一信息与第三段的信息不一致，原文仅仅指出美国的离婚率接近50％，而没有说50％的离婚事件是因为沟通失败造成的，因此选项[B]为正确答案。选项[C]“女性更看重夫妻间的交流”(attach importance to意为“重视”)和选项[D]“女性在家庭里比丈夫更喜欢说话”均与原文内容一致，因此可以排除。
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