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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. Throug
I was addressing a small gathering in a suburban Virginia living room—a women’ s group that had invited men to join them. Throug
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2016-01-05
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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 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.
Which of the following can best summarize the main idea of this text?
选项
A、The moral decaying deserves more research by sociologists.
B、Marriage break-up stems from sex inequalities.
C、Husband and wife have different expectations from their marriage.
D、Conversational patterns between man and wife are different.
答案
D
解析
主旨题。本文从作者的一次家庭聚会经历引出男性在家庭内外的交流存在差别的讨论。而这种沟通表现的差别会影响婚姻的成功。全文主旨明确,即男性和女性的交流模式存在不同。D项“男性与其妻子的对话模式是不一样的”为正确答案。A项“道德水准的下滑更值得社会学家进行研究”与全文内容无关。B项的意思是“婚姻失败源自男女性别上的不平等”,这一说法与文章第四段的内容相左。C项的意思是“夫妻双方对婚姻有着不同的期望”,这种说法虽然在第四段的最后部分提到了,但显然不是文章的主旨。
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