Question

Betty and Harold have been married for years. But one thing still puzzles (困擾) old Harold. How is it that he can leave Betty and her friend Joan sitting on the sofa, talking, go out to a ballgame, come back three and a half hours later, and they're still sitting on the sofa? Talking?

What in the world, Harold wonders, do they have to talk about?

Betty shrugs. Talk? We're friends.

Researching this matter called friendship, Psychologist Lillian Rubin spent two

years interviewing more than two hundred women and men. No matter what their age, their job, their sex, the results were completely clear: women have more friendships than men, and the difference in the content and the quality of those friendships is“marked and unmistakable”.

More than two hirds of the single men Rubin interviewed could not name a best friend. Those who could were likely to name a woman. Yet three?quarters of the single women had no problem naming a best friend, and almost always it was a woman. More married men than women named their wife／husband as a best friend, most trusted person, or the one they would turn to in time of emotional distress (感情危機).“Most women,” says Rubin,“identified (認定) at least one, usually more, trusted friends to whom they could turn in a troubled moment, and they spoke openly about the importance of these relationships in their lives.”

“In general,” writes Rubin in her new book,“women's friendships with each other rest on shared emotions and support, but men's relationships are marked by shared activities.” For the most part, Rubin says, interactions (交往) between men are emotionally controlled—a good fit with the social requirements of “manly behavior”.

“Even when a man is said to be a best friend,”Rubin writes,“the two share little about their innermost feelings. Whereas a woman's closest female friend might be the first to tell her to leave a failing marriage, it wasn't unusual to hear a man say he didn't know his friend's marriage was in serious trouble until he appeared one night asking if he could sleep on the sofa.”

1.What old Harold cannot understand or explain is the fact that________.

A. he is treated as an outsider rather than a husband

B. women have so much to share

C. women show little interest in ballgames

D. he finds his wife difficult to talk to 

2.Rubin's study shows that for emotional support a married woman is more likely to turn to_________.

A. a male friend     B. a female friend      C. her parents      D. her husband

3.According to the text, which type of behavior is NOT expected of a man by society?

A. Ending his marriage without good reason.

B. Spending too much time with his friends.

C. Complaining about his marriage trouble.

D. Going out to ballgames too often. 

4.Which of the following statements is best supported by the last paragraph?

A. Men keep their innermost feelings to themselves.

B. Women are more serious than men about marriage.

C. Men often take sudden action to end their marriage.

D. Women depend on others in making decisions. 

5.The research done by psychologist Rubin centers around_________.

A. happy and successful marriages        

B. friendships of men and women

C. emotional problems in marriage         

D. interactions between men and women 

Answer 1

1----5     BBCAB  

解析:

1.這是一道細節(jié)題。從第一段可知，使Harold迷茫不解的是當他外出打球三個半小時后，發(fā)現(xiàn)妻子和她的朋友仍然坐在沙發(fā)上交談。他不明白為什么女人會有那么多東西相互分享。答案為B。

2.這是一道細節(jié)題。從短文最后看出當一個女人發(fā)生感情危機時，她常常把這件事告訴自己的女性朋友。答案為B。

3.這是一道細節(jié)題。從短文最后一句話可知一個男人如果不知道自己朋友的婚姻處于危機當

中很正常，這也從反面說明了在一般情況下，男人不向自己的朋友抱怨自己的婚姻危機。答

案為C。

4.這是一道細節(jié)題。第一句話可知男人幾乎不和自己的朋友分享自己的內心世界。答案為A。

5.這是一道概括題。通讀全文可以得出結論，心理學家Rubin的研究中心，研究的是有關男人和女人的朋友關系問題。答案為B。