英语新题型7(总3页)
Practice test 7
Section B
Directions: In this ction, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choo a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on 确切的英文Answer Sheet 2.
Why Men and Women Can’t Communicate
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A)A man and a woman were ated in a car that had been circling the same area for a ha
女子排球lf hour. The woman was saying, “Why don’t we just ask someone” The man was saying, not for the first time, “I’m sure it’s around here somewhere. I’ll just try this street. ”
B)Why are so many men reluctant to ask directions Why aren’t women And why can’t women understand why men don’t want to ask The explanation, for this and for countless minor and major frustrations that women and men encounter when they talk to each other, lies in the different ways that they u language — differences that begin with how girls and boys u language as children, growing up in different worlds.
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C)Anthropologists, sociologists and psychologists have found that little girls play in small groups or in pairs; they have a best friend, with whom they spend a lot of time talking. It’s the telling of crets that makes them best friends. They learn to u language to negotiate intimacy — to make connections and feel clo to each other. Boys, on the other hand, tend to play competitive games in larger groups, which are hierarchical. High-status boys give orders, and low-status boys are pushed around. So boys learn to u language to prerve
independence and negotiate their status, trying to hold center stage, challenge and resist challenges, display knowledge and verbal skill.
D)The divergent ( 有分歧的) assumptions about the purpo of language persist into adulthood, where they lie in wait behind cross-gender conversations, ready to leap out and cau puzzlement or grief. In the ca of asking for directions, the same interchange is experienced differently by women and men. From a woman’s perspective, you ask for help, you get it, and you get to where you’re going. A fleeting connection is made with a stranger, which is fundamentally pleasant. But a man is aware that by admitting ignorance and asking for information, he positions himlf one-down to someone el. Far from pleasant, this is humiliating. So it makes n for him to prerve his independence and lf-esteem at the cost of a little extra travel time.
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E)Here is another scene from the drama of the differences in men’s and women’s ways of talking. A woman and a man return home from work. She tells everything that happened during the day: what she did, whom she met, what they said, what that made her think. Then she turns to him and asks, “How was your day”
F) He says, “Same old rat race.” She feels locked out: “You don’t tell me anything.” He protests, “Nothing happened at work.” They have different assumptions about what’s “anything” to tell. To her, telling life’s daily events and impressions means she’s not alone in the world. Such talk is the esnce of intimacy — evidence that she and her partner are best friends. Since he never spent time talking in this way with his friends, best or otherwi, he doesn’t expect it, doesn’t know how to do it, and doesn’t miss it when it isn’t there.
G)Another source of mutual frustration is the difference in women’s and men’s assumptions about “troubles talk.” She begins to talk about a problem; he offers a solution; she dismiss it, with pique （赌气）. He feels frustrated: “She complains, but she doesn’t want to do anything to solve her problems.” Indeed, what she wants to do about it is talk. She is frustrated becau his solution cuts short the discussion, and implies she shouldn’t be wasting time talking about it.
H)The female arch for connection and the male concern with hierarchy is evident here,
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too. When a woman tells another woman about a problem, her friend typically explores the problem (“And then what did he say”
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J)); express understanding (“I know how you feel”); or offers a similar experience (“It’s like the time I ……) All the respons express support and bring them clor. But offering a solution positions the problem-solver as one-up. This asymmetry ( 非对称)is distancing, just the opposite of what she was after in bringing up the discussion.
