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Ours is a society that tries to keep the world sharply divided into masculine and feminine, not because that is the way the worl

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问题     Ours is a society that tries to keep the world sharply divided into masculine and feminine, not because that is the way the world is, but because that is the way we believe it should be. It takes unwavering belief and considerable effort to keep this division. It also leads us to make some fairly foolish judgments, particularly about language.
    Because we think that language also should be divided into masculine and. feminine we have become very skilled at ignoring anything that will not fit our preconceptions. We would rather change what we hear than change our ideas about the gender division of the world. We will call assertive girls unfeminine and supportive boys effeminate, and try to change them while still retaining our stereotypes of masculine and feminine talk.
    This is why some research on sex differences and language has been so interesting. It is an illustration of how wrong we can be. Of the many investigators who set out to find the stereotyped sex differences in language, few have had any positive results. It seems that our images of serious taciturn(沉默的) male speakers and gossipy garrulous(饶舌的)female speakers are just that images.
    Many myths associated with masculine and feminine talk have had to be discarded as more research has been undertaken. If females do use more trivial words than males, stop talking in mid-sentence, or talk about the same things over and over again, they do not do it when investigators are around.
    None of these characteristics of female speech have been found. And even when sex differences have been found, the question arises as to whether the differences is in the eye or ear of the beholder, rather than in the language.
    If males do not speak in high-pitched voices, it is not usually because they are unable to do so. The reason is more likely to be that there are penalties. Males with high-pitched voices are often the object of ridicule. But pitch is not an absolute, for what is considered the right pitch for males varies from country to country.
选项 A、assertive
B、snobbish
C、approving
D、critical
答案D
解析 作者态度题。题意为："本文作者对男性话语和女性话语的分类的态度是怎样的?"从文中第一段末句出现的foolish judgments(愚蠢的判断)以及第三段第二句(这表明我们会犯多么大的错误，会向错误方向走多远)，可知作者对此持批评态度，即答案选项正确。
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