Men Too May Suffer from Domestic Violence
Nearly three in 10 men have experienced violence at the hands of1 an intimate partner during their lifetimes, according to one of the few studies to look ____1____ domestic violence and health among men.
“Many men actually do experience domestic violence, although we don’t hear about it____2____,” Dr. Robert J. Reid of the University of Washington in Seattle , one of the study's authors ,told Reuters Health. “ They often don't tell____3____we don't ask. We want to get the message out2 to men who____4____experience domestic violence that they are not alone and there are resources available to____5____.”
The researchers asked study participants about physical abuse and non-physical____6____, such as threats that made them____7____for3 their safety, controlling behavior (for example, being told who they could associate with and where they could go),and constant name-calling.
Among men 18 to 54 years old, 14.2 percent said they had experienced intimate partner____8____in the past five years, while 6.1 percent reported domestic violence in the previous year.
Rates were lower for men 55 and____9____,with 5.3 percent reporting violence in the past five years and 2.4 percent having experienced it in the past 12 months.
Overall, 30.5 percent of men younger than 55 and 26.5 percent of older men said they had been victims of____10____violence at some point in their lives. About half of the violence the men____11____was physical.
However, the physical violence men reported wasn’t as harsh as____12____suffered by women in a previous study;20 percent to 40 percent of the men rated it as severe, compared to 61 percent of____13____
Men who reported experiencing domestic violence had more emotional and mental health problems____14____those who had not, especially older men, the____15____found.
注釋:
1.at the hands of:出自某人之手,從某人那里
2.get the message out:傳達這樣一個信息
3.fear for:為……擔憂
練習:
1.A. by B. at C. on D. for
2.A. never B. often C. ever D. now
3.A. and B. but C. yet D. unless
4.A. to B. no C. do D. go
5.A. us B. him C. you D. them
6.A. strength B. labor C. abuse D. exercise
7.A. hope B. fear C. wait D. look
8.A. violence B. attitude C. friendship D. stress
9.A. younger B. junior C. senior D. older
10.A. normal B. necessary C. domestic D. foreign
11.A. enjoyed B. experienced C. performed D. committed
12.A. this B. those C. that D. one
13.A. women B. people C. adults D. children
14.A. from B. than C. except D. despite
15.A. victims B. participants C. researchers D. partners
答案與題解:
1.B look at表示“觀察、研究”。
2.根據上下文可以推斷,此處應選表示“經常”意思的often一詞。
3.A這句話的意思是他們經常不說而我們也不問”。所以應用and一詞連接兩個并列成分。
4.C本段中的第一句已經出現過do experience的用法,表示“的確經歷過”。
5.D前面出現的是men一詞,與其對應的應是them。
6.C前面出現了physical abuse,與其并列自然應是non-physical abuse。
7.B既然是威脅,肯定會令他們為自身安全擔憂,而fear for their safety正表示這樣的意思。
8.A 從第一句中的violence at the hands of an intimate partner 就可以推斷,此處應選violence 一詞。
9.D因為前面提到了18~54歲的男人,因此此處應是55歲及55歲以上的男人。
10.C前面已經多次出現過domestic violence的搭配。
11.B前面已經多次出現過experience violence這一搭配,而上下文也表明此處表示的意思是男人“遭受的”家庭暴力。
12.C 用that 指代婦女遭受的physical violence。
13.A因為是在與男人做比較,所以應選women。
14.B本句中前面出現了表示比較的more一詞,此處自然應選than一詞。
15.C結果只能是“研究者”發現的。
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