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.What is most wives'main expectation of their husbands?A.Talking to them.B.Trusting them.C.Supporting their careers.D.Sharing housework.

选项 A.Talking to them.
B.Trusting them.
C.Supporting their careers.
D.Sharing housework.

答案 A

解析细节题【命题思路】这是一道封闭式的细节题，考生可以直接根据题干中提取的信息回文定位到文章中的相关句子，得出答案，它考查的是同义替换。【直击答案】第一段第三句话“women frequently…don't talk to them”正话反说暗示妻子很期待丈夫和她们交流。此外，第四段的“want their husbands to be”对应题干中的“expectation of their husbands”；“first and foremost”对应题干中的“main”；“conversational partners”对应A项“talking to them”，因此A项为正确答案。【干扰排除】B项在文中并未提及，属于无中生有。由第四段首句可知妻子对丈夫的抱怨不集中在一些明显不公平的事情上，而是丈夫不和她们交流。作者继而对这些明显不公平的事情（tangible inequities）进行了举例，即such as后面的内容，其中包括了D项“sharing housework”的内容，故D项不属于抱怨的内容，并不是妻子所期待的内容。C项“supporting their careers”是指丈夫能够支持她们的事业，而原文信息是“having given up the chance for a career to company a husband”，是指妻子为了陪伴丈夫而放弃她们的事业，偷换了概念。

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