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Betty and Harold have been married for years. But one thing still puzzles old Harold. How is it, he wonders, that he can leave B
Betty and Harold have been married for years. But one thing still puzzles old Harold. How is it, he wonders, that he can leave B
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Betty and Harold have been married for years. But one thing still puzzles old Harold. How is it, he wonders, that he can leave Betty and her friend Joan sitting on the couch, talking, go out to a ballgame, come back, three and a half hours later, and they’re still sitting on the couch.
Talking?
What in the world, muses Harold, 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. Like Betty and Harold, some were married, others single. They covered the gamut of what is chronologically called adulthood, twenty-five to fifty-five. They were blue collar, blue-blooded, and in between.
No matter their age, their occupation, their sex, their marital status, Rubin found the results were "unequivocal". 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 citing best friend, and almost always it was a woman. More married men than women cited a spouse as a best friend, most trusted confidant, or the one they would turn to in times of emotional distress. But even when a married woman named her husband to one of these categories, it was never exclusively his. "Most women," said Rubin, "identified at least one, usually more, trusted friends to whom they could turn in a troubled moment, and they spoke openly and ardently about the importance of these relationships in their lives."
In general, writes Rubin in her new book Intimate Strangers, "women’s friendships with each other rest on shared intimacies, self-revelation, nurturance, and support." By contrast, "men’s relationships are marked by shared activities." For the most part, Rubin contends, interactions between men "are emotionally contained and controlled-a good fit with the social requirements of manly behaviour."
"Even when a man claimed a best friend," Rubin wrote, "the two shared little about the interior of their lives and feelings." Whereas a woman’s closest female friend might be the first to urge her to leave a failing marriage, "it wasn’t unusual," Rubin discovered, "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 couch."
Which of the following is NOT implied in the passage?
选项
A、Rubin interviewed both men and women.
B、Rubin interviewed people from different social backgrounds.
C、Rubin interviewed both married and single people.
D、Rubin interviewed people with different personalities.
答案
D
解析
文章讲完Betty和Harold的故事后说,心理学家Rubin用两年时间采访了两百多人,有男有女,有蓝领、贵族以及界乎两者之间的人。接下来的一段谈到,尽管被采访者年龄不同,职业不同,性别不同,婚姻状况不同,但结果却十分明确(unequivocal)。由此看来,A、B、C三项都涉及了,只未提被采访者的性格,因此正确答案为D。
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