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1 Which of the following best summarizes the passage?

There are many different conversation types.
Women focus on building relationships while communicating with others.
Men and women should try to solve their problems through conversation.
✔ Misunderstandings between couples come from different communication styles.

2 The phrase focus on in the passage is closest in meaning to

put off fight for
distract from ✔ concentrate on

3 Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

Men and women just talk in different ways.
Men talk to get information and protect their independence.
✔ Women want both emotional support and solutions through conversation.
Women want the men to share their feelings and understand them.

4 Where would the following sentence best fit in the passage?

However, this hurts her feelings.

(a) ✔ (b) (c) (d)

Visualize the Text

Complete the map with the words from the passage.

The Miscommunication between Men and Women

Men Women

talk to get information and talk to get feelings of closeness and

protect their independence emotional support

focus on coming up with a want the men to share

solution as quickly as their feelings and understand

possible them

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