I was addressing a small gathering in a

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问题 I was addressing a small gathering in a suburban Virginia living room—a woman'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，complains 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 lifesupport work like cleaning,cooking and social arrangements.Instead they focused on communication:“He doesn't listen to me.”“He does not 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.In the following part immediately after this text,the author will most probably focus on.A.a vivid account of the new book Divorce TalkB.a detailed description of the stereotypical cartoonC.other possible reasons for a high divorce rate in the U.S.D.a brief introduction to the political scientist Andrew Hacker

选项 A.a vivid account of the new book Divorce Talk
B.a detailed description of the stereotypical cartoon
C.other possible reasons for a high divorce rate in the U.S.
D.a brief introduction to the political scientist Andrew Hacker

答案 B

解析推理题【命题思路】这是一道开放式的推理题，解题需要从篇章结构的角度出发。一般情况下，一个段落中的第一句和最后一句都起到承上启下的作用。题目要求猜测接下来一段的内容，这就需要对最后一段的最后一句进行分析并推理，它会给下一段的内容做出提示。【直击答案】根据题干定位到最后一段：In short,the image that…，wanting to talk。该段具体描述了the stereotypical cartoon scene，接下来的内容最可能围绕这一点展开，所以B项为正确答案。【干扰排除】A项中的Divorce Talk出现在文章中的第三段，是作为一个论据来支持文章的观点，与最后一段的内容没有直接联系，故排除。C项的干扰性很大，但是文章的主题并不是在讨论美国高离婚率的原因，它不符合文章主旨一致性原则，故排除。D项中的安德鲁?海克在第三段和第四段中都出现过，其目的是为了进一步证实作者的观点，属于第四段的论据，是该段的一个细节，不能用于推理文章的主线路，故排除。长难句解析

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