Multiple choice

The Italians say a woman who may not speak is in danger of bursting; the Germans, that the burden of unspoken words affects her health and ages her prematurely; the English say similar things still more coarsely. Classical proverbs have dealt with the issue; numberless fairy tales, narratives, novels and poems have portrayed the difficulty of silence. Yet something may be learned from people who talk too much. If the why and how much of it are carefully studied, it is not difficult to draw a significant conclusion for one's own case at law.

What is the underlying theme of the passage?

  1. Over-communicativeness is not an unmixed blessing.

  2. Women are habitually more talkative than men.

  3. The determination of truth would succeed much less frequently if it were not for the fact that men find it very difficult to keep secrets.

  4. European men are generally chauvinists.

  5. Speech is a betrayer of humans.
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Explanation

The option can be derived from the last two sentences of the passage. 

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