单选题 Text 2 I was addressing a small gathering in a suburban Virginia living room — a women's group that 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 would 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 to his, or doing far more than their share of daily life-support work like cleaning, cooking and social arrangements. Instead, they focused on communications. "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 flares at the back of it, wanting to talk.

单选题 What is most wives' main expectation of their husbands? ______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】细节题。第四段为题区“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 to his，or doing far more than their share of daily life-support work like cleaning，cooking and social arrangements．Instead， they focused on communications”句子虽长，但利用转折词“instead”，就找到妇女关注的是沟通“communication”，这和选项A到的“talking to them”对应。

单选题 Judging from the context, the phrase "wreaking havoc" (Line 3, Para.2) most probably means ______.

单选题 All of the following are true EXCEPT ______.

单选题 Which of the following can best summarize the main idea of this text? ______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】中心题。选择文章中的关键词，提到男人，女人和交流方式，选择D项。或分析文章的段落，了解文章的结构，得出中心。第一段讲了具体事例，第二段小结故事的寓意，男女在外和在家说话模式的比较，第三段提到一位研究者分析婚姻失败的原因。第四段，作者提及自己的研究结果，男女对交流的要求方式不同。最后以描述漫画结束。