[B] Black English can be more expressive than standard English.

[C] Non-standard varieties of human language are just as entertaining.

[D] Of all the varieties, standard English can best convey complex ideas.

可以将各个选项与原文一一进行比较，与McWhorter谈到的观点一致的就是正确答案。按照出题顺序，可以优先定位四段，其中四段末句指出：他（指McWhorter）并不像其他人那样认为如果我们讲话不得体就无法正确思考。这等于说他认为我们即使讲话不得体也能正确思考，就是说逻辑思维与我们的讲话方式没有必然的联系。A选项说的正是这一意思，为正确答案。其他三个选项与四段所说都不相符，也不是McWhorter认可的观点，所以都是干扰选项。第二个选项中的比较“more expressive than…”在原文未提到，属于无中生有。

又如，

In spite of “endless talk of difference”, American society is an amazing machine for homogenizing people. There is “the democratizing uniformity of dress and discourse, and the casualness and absence of deference” characteristic of popular culture. People are absorbed into “a culture of consumption”, launched by the 19th-entury department stores that offered “vast arrays of goods in an elegant atmosphere. Instead of intimate shops catering to a knowledgeable elite” these were stores “anyone could enter, regardless of class or background. This turned shopping into a public and democratic act.” The mass media, advertising and sports are other forces for homogenization. (2006-1)

According to the author, the department stores of the 19th-century

[A] played a role in the spread of popular culture.

[B] became intimate shops for common consumers.

[C] satisfied the needs of a knowledgeable elite.

[D] owed its emergence to the culture of consumption.

根据问题中的关键词the department stores of the 19th-century定位一段第三句——该句指出：人们被吸引到“消费文化”之中——这场消费运动是由19世纪的百货商店发起的。这里的“消费文化”就是前一句中所说的“大众文化”（popular culture）。既然19世纪的百货商店导致了消费文化，即大众文化的出现，那么（A）“在传播大众文化方面起了一定作用”是正确答案，因为它符合此意。B选项属于断章取义，C选项与原文正反混淆，而D“百货商店的出现源于消费文化”颠倒了因果关系，反之才对。

五、其他

1．常识判断（根据一般经验做出判断）

2．过于绝对（最高级、唯一性判断在原文无依据）

例如，

There is another way to commit evolutionary suicide: stay alive, but have fewer children. Few people are as fertile as in the past. Except in some religious communities, very few women have 15 children. Nowadays the number of births, like the age of death, has become average. Most of us have roughly the same number of offspring. Again, differences between people and the opportunity for natural selection to take advantage of it have diminished. India shows what is happening. The country offers wealth for a few in the great cities and poverty for the remaining tribal peoples. The grand mediocrity of today—everyone being the same in survival and number of offspring—means that natural selection has lost 80% of its p

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