58.
The
underlined word “it” in the fourth paragraph refers to________.
A. a
selling point
B.
the company name
C. a
great demand for health
D.
the manufacturing of green products
B
Betty
and Harold have been married for years. But one thing still puzzles 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 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-thirds 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.
“Most women,” says Rubin, “identified 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. ”