英语二阅读理解第二篇原文及题目
万学海文
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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 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 politic
万学海文
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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 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 politic