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Conversation

Some recent research into conversation between men and women has produced results which will surprise few women. Men always interrupt women when they talk. One (1.research)…….feels that men regard female talk as a kind of (2.conversation)……….. housework. They expect women to play a (3.support)………… role. So a man interrupts in a display of (4.dominant)………. or control. Men also have a much more (5. pleasant)………. listening style. Whereas woman uses gestures or say “mm”, a man will say such things as “right” or “okay” thus setting the stage for an (6. Interrupt)………...

      Conversation of this kind is, then, (7. Hard)………. meaningful communication. Male talk is often (8. argument)………… while women are more tentative, asking more questions and tending to build up their replies on what the other person has said. The research would indicate that women are better (9.listen)……….. than men. Yet, listening secretly to conversations between groups of women, one has the impression of several simultaneous monologues into which no man would be (10.ability)………. to get a chance to speak.