Question

　　Betty and Harold have been married for years. But one thing still puzzles （困扰）old Harold, How is it that he can leave Betty and her friend Joan sitting on the sofa, talking, go out to a ball game, 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 result called friendship, psychologist Lillian Rubin spent two years interviewing more than two hundred women and men. No matter what their age, their jobs, their sex, the results were completely clear：women had more friendships than men, and the difference in the content and the quality of those friendships was“marked and unmistakable”.

　　More than two thirds of the single men Rubin interviewed would 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 wives/husbands as best friends, most trusted persons, or the ones they would

turn to in time of emotional distress（感情危机）. “Most women,” says Rubin, “identified（认定） at least one, usually more, trusted friends to whom they could turn in a trouble 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 “mainly 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 a sofa.”

(1) What old Harold cannot understand or explain is the fact that ________.

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A．he is treated as an outsider than a husband

B．women have so much to share

C．women show little interest in ball games

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 ________.

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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 for a man by society?

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A．Ending his marriage without good reasons.

B．Spending too much time with his friends.

C．Complaining about his marriage trouble.

D．Going out to ball games too often.

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

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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 ________.

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A．happy and successful marriages

B．friendships of men and women

C．emotional problems in marriage

D．interactions between men and women

Answer 1

答案：B;B;C;A;B
解析：

(1) 从短文第一段可知。使Harold迷茫不解的是当他外出打球三个半小时后，发现妻子和她的朋友仍然坐在沙发上交谈。他不明白女人为什么会有那么多话互相交淡。 (2) 由短文最后一句话Whereas a woman's closest female friend might be the first to tell her to leave a failing marriage…可知。 (3) 由短文最后一句…，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 a sofa.可知。 (4) 由短文最后一段首句“Even when a man is said to be a best friend，”Rubin writes，“the two share little about their innermost feelings.”可知。 (5) 这是一道归纳概括题。通读全文可以得出结论心理学家Rubin的研究中心是有关男人和女人的朋友关系，故答案选B。