单项选择题

A recent poll indicated that half the teenagers in the United States believe that communication between them and their parents is poor and further that one of the prime causes of this gap is deficient listening behavior. As a case in (62) , one parent believed that her daughter had a (63) hearing problem. She was so (64) that she took her to an audiologist to have her ear tested. The audiologist carefully tested both ears and (65) back to the parent: "There’s nothing wrong with her hearing. She’s just tuning you (66) ."
A (67) cause of the rising divorce rate (more than half of all marriages end in divorce) is the (68) of husbands and wives to interact effectively. They don’t listen to each other. Neither person (69) to the actual message sent by the other.
(70) like fashion, political scientists report that a growing number of people believe that their elected (71) are out of touch with the constituents they are (72) representing. Why (73) they don’t believe that they listen to them. (74) , it seems that sometimes our politicians don’t (75) listen to themselves. The following is a(n) (76) story: At a national legislative conference held in Albuquerque some years ago, Senator Joseph Montoya was handed a copy of a press (77) by a press aide shortly before he got up before the audience to (78) a speech. When he (79) to speak, to the horror of the press aide and the amusement of his audience, Montoya began reading the press release, not his speech. He began, "For immediate release. Senator Joseph M. Montoya, Democrat of New Mexico, last night told the National..." Montoya read the (80) six-page release, concluding with the statement that he "was repeatedly (81) by applause.\

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