VII:
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word(s) for each of the blanks.
Women are expert at gossiping, and they always talk about trivial things, or at least that’s what men have always thought. However, some new research (45) _____ that when women talk to women, their (46) ______ are far from frivolous, and cover many more (47) _____ (up to 40 subjects) than men talk to other men. Women’s conversations (48)_____ from health to their houses, from politics to fashion, from movies to family, from education to relationship problems. Sports are notably (49)_____. Men tend to have a more limited range of subjects, the most popular being work, sports, jokes, cars, and women.
According to Professor Petra Boynton, a psychologist who interviewed over 1000 women, women also tend to move quickly from one subject to another in (50)_____, while men usually stick to one subject for longer periods of time.
At work, this (51) _____ can be an advantage for men, as they can put other matters aside and concentrate matter aside and concentrate (52) ______ on the topic being discussed. On the other hand, it also means that they sometimes find it hard to concentrate when several things have to be discussed at the same (53) _____ in a meeting.
Professor Boynton also says that men and women talk for different reasons. In social (54) _____ women use conversation to solve problems and reduce stress while men talk with each other to laugh or to compare opinions.
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