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2010考研英语二 · 阅读理解 Text 2
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2010考研英语二阅读理解 Text 2 原文
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 to his, 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.
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26A
27C
28B
29D
30B
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26What is most wives’ main expectation of their husbands?
答案A
解析原文写到“most wives want their husbands to be, first and foremost, conversational partners”，并反复出现“He doesn’t talk to me”“He doesn’t listen to me”，可见妻子最核心的期待是丈夫成为交谈对象。A 与此直接对应。C、D 属于文中明确说妻子抱怨“并不主要针对”的职业牺牲与家务分担；B 的“信任”文中未提。
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27Judging from the context, the phrase “wreaking havoc” (Line 3, Para. 2) most probably means ______.
答案C
解析第二段指出该说话模式“is wreaking havoc with marriage”，随后用离婚访谈、近半数离婚率及“failed conversation”的“epidemic”来铺陈后果，故短语意为对婚姻造成破坏。C 正确。A“激发动力”、B 仅“产生影响”、D“制造压力”都无法覆盖后文的破裂与流行病式失败。
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28All of the following are true EXCEPT ______.
答案B
解析文中“divorce rate of nearly 50 percent”是全美整体离婚率，再据此推算沟通失败涉及的个案数量，并非说近半数离婚都由交谈失败造成，故 B 不实。A 对应“men tend to talk more than women in public”；C 对应妻子把沟通列为离婚主因及“want … conversational partners”；D 对应丈夫下班无话、妻子撑起家里谈话的对比。
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29Which of the following can best summarize the main idea of this text?
答案D
解析全文由客厅轶事切入，指出美国男性公开场合话多、家中话少，并与妻子把丈夫首先视为交谈伙伴的期待形成对照，结尾以早餐桌漫画概括危机，中心是夫妻交谈模式的差异。D 准确。A 道德沦丧、B 性别不平等导致解体均非主线；C 把期待差异说成全文主旨，实则期待差异服务于说明交谈模式问题。
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30In the following part immediately after this text, the author will most probably focus on ______.
答案B
解析末段用“In short”把当前危机浓缩为“stereotypical cartoon scene”，却只点到报纸挡脸、妻子怒视想说话，画面细节尚未展开，故下文最可能紧接着细写这幅漫画。A 的新书、C 的其他离婚原因、D 的 Hacker 简介都已在前文一带而过，不宜作为紧接部分的焦点。
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