本题按照大多数考生的习惯，通过homework定位回原文发现homework以不同的形式出现在很多地方，如第一句的原词，和代词it等，不能准确定位到一句话，故homework不是我们要找的关键词。这时考虑题干中另外一个有价值的信息nowadays，发现没有原词复现。这种情况下我们去寻找这两个信息的同义替换，发现homework无同义替换，nowadays对应第一句的in recent years，其他地方未出现，并且句中的it也对应题干中的homework，故nowadays为关键词，且本句为解题句，通过has been scorned与criticism之间的对应关系选出A选项。
前两题是通过题干的关键词准确定位到解题句，无法通过题干关键词准确定位或定位到的句子无法解题时，我们考虑通过选项关键词定位回原文，通过排除的方式选出正确答案。如下题：
① Girls’ attraction to pink may seem unavoidable, somehow encoded in their DNA, but according to Jo Paoletti, an associate professor of American Studies, it is not.② Children were not color-coded at all until the early 20th century, in the era before domestic washing machines all babies wore white as a practical matter, since the only way of getting clothes clean was to boil them.③ What’s more, both boys and girls wore what were thought of as gender-neutral dresses.④ When nursery colors were introduced, pink was actually considered the more masculine color, a pastel version of red, which was associated with strength.⑤ Blue, with its intimations of the Virgin Mary, constancy and faithfulness, symbolized femininity.⑥ It was not until the mid-1980s, when amplifying age and sex differences became a dominant children’s marketing strategy, that pink fully came into its own, when it began to seem inherently attractive to girls, part of what defined them as female, at least for the first few critical years.
27. According to Para.2, which of the following is true of colors?
[A] colors encoded in girl’s DNA
[B] blue used to be regarded as the color for girls
[C] pink used to be a neutral color in symbolizing genders
[D] white is preferred by babies
本题通过唯一的一个题干信息定位回原文模糊定位段落的第四句，发现无法解题，所以只能通过选项关键词定位回原文逐一排除。[A]选项通过girl’s DNA定位回第一句，发现最后说it is not，说明粉色并不是编辑在女性DNA中的，与题干中的color以及后半句表述都不符合，排除;[B]选项通过blue定位到原文第五句，删除中间插入成分后，主干为“蓝色象征着女性气质”，与[B]选项“女性被认为是女子的颜色”是同义替换，故答案为[B]选项;[C]通过pink定位回原文第四句，说的是粉色被认为是更男性化的颜色，与[C]选项说的粉色是中性的颜色不符，排除;[D]选项通过white与babies定位回原文发现并未提及‘prefer偏好’的相关信息，排除。
总结来看，细节题在模糊定位之后，可以通过题干关键词定位回原文解题，关键词是“能够定位到文中唯一一句话”的词或词组，题干关键词的形式可以是原词也可以是同义替换，在题干关键词无法解题时，可以通过选项关键词定位回原文排除选项解题。这些解题技巧你学会了吗?
