【典型例題 1】
【原文】1 ①Homework has never been terribly popular with students and even many parents, but in recent years it has been particularly scorned. ②School districts across the country, most recently Los Angeles Unified, are revising their thinking on his educational ritual. ③Unfortunately, L.A. Unified has produced an inflexible policy which mandates that with the exception of some advanced courses, homework may no longer count for more than 10% of a student’s academic grade.
【題目】21.It is implied in paragraph 1 that nowadays homework_____.
【選項】
[C]is not required for advanced courses
[D]is gaining more preferences
【分析】題干在問，“據第一段暗示，現如今家庭作業_______”。根據關鍵詞homework和in recent years可以精確定位到第一段第一句，說“近幾年，家庭作業尤其受到鄙視”。而D選項說家庭作業受到了越來越多的喜愛，很顯然和文章內容相反的，這是屬于正反混淆。C選項意思是家庭作業對于高級課程是不需要的。而第一段第三句后半部分，說“除了一些高級課程之外，家庭作業或許不再占到學生學業成績的10%”，明顯和文章內容是不一致的。
【典型例題 2】
【原文】1 ①Hunting for a job late last year, lawyer Gant Redmon stumbled across CareerBuilder, a job database on the Internet. ②He searched it with no success but was attracted by the site’s “personal search agent.”
【題目】41. How did Redmon find his job?
【選項】[A] By searching openings in a job database.
【分析】題干在問，“Redmon是如何找到他工作的?”定位到第一段第二句，說“他搜索CareerBuilder這個網站結果一無所獲。”CareerBuilder就指的是“a job database”。而A 選項卻說他是通過這個工作數據庫搜索到空缺職位的，和文章中的內容很明顯是相反的，屬于正反混淆。
【典型例題 3】
【原文】4①…conclude that the act of memorizing is more of a cognitive exercise than an intuitive one.
【題目】23. According to Ericsson, good memory
【選項】[B] results from intuitive rather than cognitive exercises.
【分析】題干在問，在Ericsson看來，好的記憶力會如何?文中出現了more...than...這個比較結構，肯前否后，意思是記憶這種行為與其說是一種先天的練習，不如說是一種后天的習題。而B選項說，好的記憶力來自于先天的練習而不是后天的習得。剛好和文中定位信息相反。