Read the following paragraph and answer the questions after each paragraph.
Unfortunately, women and men often have different ideas about what’s appropriate, different ways of speaking. Many of the conversational rituals common among women are designed to take the other person’s feelings into account, while many of the conversational rituals common among men are designed to maintain the one-up position, or at least avoid appearing one-down. As a result, when men and women interact—especially at work—it’s often women who are at the disadvantage. Because women are not trying to avoid the one-down position, that is unfortunately where they may end up.
—Deborah Tannen
1. What is the paragraph’s main idea?
2. What topics is Tannen comparing and contrasting? List the points for each topic.
3. Does the author organize the paragraph by topics or by points of comparison?
1. Men and women have different ways of speaking.
2. Women
Men
take other’s feelings into account
maintain the one-up position
don’t foresee the one-down position
try to avoid the one-down position
3. By topics
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