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.Which of the following can best summarize the main idea of this text?A.The moral decaying deserves more research by sociologists.B.Marriage breakup stems from sex inequalities.C.Husband and wife have different expectations from their marriage.D.Conversational patterns between man and wife are different.

选项 A.The moral decaying deserves more research by sociologists.
B.Marriage breakup 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【命题思路】这是一道主旨题。首先从整体上来看，这篇文章的段落与段落之间没有明显的转折，也就是说文章的主题从头到尾是一致的。通常情况下，这种文章结构的观点出现在第一段或者是第二段，考生可以通过概括第一段和第二段的内容提炼文章主旨。【直击答案】第一段通过一个小故事引出了要讨论的话题：conversation；第二段的第一句话实则就是文章的主旨句；因为第三段和第四段都是通过具体的研究调查来证明文章的观点，属于论据，最后一段用一幅漫画重申了主题。所以文章的主题句是：although American men tend to…talk less at home。D项是对这句话的高度概括，符合主旨题的答案特点。【干扰排除】文章的关键词是conversation或者是communication，作者并未提升到moral（道德）的层面来探讨这个话题，A项属于过度推理。文章第三段提到most women she interviewed…as reason for their divorces，即大多数女性都将缺少交流归结为离婚的理由，与B项所表达的内容不相符。第四段的最后一句话：that most wives want…share this expectation of their wives，虽体现了男性和女性有着不同的期待，但是这种期待主要还是体现在conversation方面。C项并未体现文章的主题词，而是将原文主旨含义扩大化了。

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