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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. Through

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问题     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, 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.
All of the following are true EXCEPT______.
选项 A、men tend to talk more in public than women
B、nearly 50 percent of recent divorces are caused by failed conversation
C、women attach much importance to communication between couples
D、a female tends to be more talkative at home than her spouse
答案B
解析 篇章信息题没有明确的信息点，我们可以根据此类题目在五个题目中的位置判断该题在文中的命题位置。但是更通用的方法是根据各个选项提示的内容回到文章中逐一筛查，找到与文章某个语句表达内容一致的选项。本题A项涉及男性女性在公开场合谈话多少比较的信息，该信息在文章第一段有明确说明，为正确陈述，不是本题答案；B项涉及到不能沟通造成了50％离婚率的信息，文章的确提到了目前美国离婚率为50％的信息，但并没有说50％的离婚率是因为缺乏沟通造成的，是错误的陈述，为本题答案；C项和D项文中都有明确的表述，属正确陈述，不是本题答案。
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