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I was addressing a small gathering in a suburban Virginia living room -- a women'sgroup that had invited men to join them. Throughout the evening one man had been particularly talk ative 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 concurred. 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 '70s. 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 ontangible 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 dailylife-support work like cleaning cooking social arrangements and errands.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.

26.What is most wives' main expectation of their husbands?
A. Talking to them.
B. Trusting them.
C. Supporting theircareers.
D. Sharing housework.
27.Judging from the context, the phrase “wreaking havoc” (Line 3, Para.2) most probably means ___.
A. generating motivation.
B. exerting influence
C. causing damage
D. creating pressure
28.All of the following are true EXCEPT_______
A. men tend to talk morein public tan women
B. nearly 50percent ofrecent divorces are caused by failed conversation
C. women attach muchimportance to communication between couples
D. a female tends to bemore talkative at home than her spouse
29.Which of the following can best summarize the main idea of this text?
A. The moral decayingdeserves more research by sociologists.
B. Marriage break-upstems from sex inequalities.
C. Husband and wife havedifferent expectations from their marriage.
D. Conversationalpatterns between man and wife are different.
30.In the following part immediately after this text, the author will mostprobably focus on ______
A. a vivid account of thenew book Divorce Talk
B. a detailed descriptionof the stereotypical cartoon
C. other possible reasonsfor a high divorce rate in the U.S.
D. a brief introductionto the political scientist Andrew Hacker
词汇注释
suburban n. 郊外
wreak havoc vt. 发泄,肆
cystalize v.明确，具体
epidemic adj. 流行的
stereotypical adj. 老一套的，陈规的