When women sit together to watch a movie on TV, they usually talk simultaneously(同時的)about a variety of subjects, including children, men, careers and what’ s happening in their lives. When groups of men and women watch a movie together, the men usually end up telling the women to shut up. Men can either talk or watch the screen -- they can’ t do both -- and they don’ t understand that women can. Besides, women consider that the point of all getting together is to have a good time and develop relationships -- not just to sit there like couch potatoes staring at the screen.
During the ad breaks, a man often asks a woman to explain the plot and tell him where the relationship between the characters is going. He is unable, unlike women, to read the subtle body language signals that reveal how the characters are feeling emotionally. Since women originally spent their days with the other women and children in the group,  they developed the ability to communicate successfully in order to maintain relationships. For a woman, speech continues to have such a clear purpose: to build relationships and make friends. For men, to talk is to relate the facts.
Men see the telephone as a communication tool for sending facts and information to other people, but a woman sees it as a means of bonding. A woman can spend two weeks on vacation with her girlfriend and, when she returns home, telephone the same girlfriend and talk for another two hours.
There is no convincing evidence that social conditioning, the fact that girls’ mothers talked them more, is the reason why girls talk more than boys. Psychiatrist Dr Michael Lewis, author Social Behaviour and Language Acquisition, conducted experiments that found mothers talked to and looked at, baby girls more often than baby boys. Scientific evidence shows parents respond the brain bias of their children. Since a girl’ s brain is better organized to send and receive speech, we therefore talk to them more. Consequently, mothers who try to talk to their sons are usually pointed to receive only short grunts in reply.
小題1:While watching TV with others, women usually talk a lot because they       
A.a(chǎn)re afraid of awkward silence with their families and friends
B.can both talk and watch the screen at the same time
C.think they can have a good time and develop relationships
D.have to explain the plot and body language to their husbands
小題2: After a vacation with her girlfriend, a woman would talk to her again on the phone for hours in order to              .
A.experience the happy time againB.keep a close tie with her
C.recommend her a new scenic spotD.remind her of something forgotten
小題3:What does the author want to tell us most?
A.Women’ s brains are better organized for language and communication
B.Women love to talk because they are more sociable than men.
C.Men do not like talking because they rely more on facts.
D.Social conditioning is not the reason why women love talking.
小題4:Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A.Women Are Socially Trained to Talk
B.Talking Maintains Relationships
C.Women Love to Talk
D.Men Talk Differently from Women.

小題1:C
小題1:B
小題1:A
小題1:C
文章大意概括:女人在一起總是有說不完的話,甚至能一邊看電影一邊聊,男人卻做不到,這是為什么?因為她們認為感情聯(lián)絡(luò)很重要,而且她們的大腦在這方面有著特殊功能。
小題1:C。考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)文章第一段的最后一句可知婦女們聚在一起總有說不完的話是因為她們認為在一起就要玩得愉快,同時加深關(guān)系。
小題1:B?疾榧毠(jié)理解。根據(jù)文章的第三段中的a woman sees it as a means of bonding可知,女人度假回來會給朋友打電話長聊是因為她們把電話看做維系關(guān)系的紐帶。
小題1:A?疾閷懽饕鈭D。根據(jù)文章最后一段中的“Since a girl’s brain is better organized to send and receive speech”一句可知,作者最想讓讀者知道的就是她們能滔滔不絕的原因是她們的大腦在交流當(dāng)中更善于處理信息。
小題1:C?疾闃(biāo)題歸納。本文是圍繞女人喜歡講話這個話題來展開的,因此C項為最佳標(biāo)題。
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