3.转折结构

转折结构利用的是转折词前后意义相反，根据前/后推断出另外一头的大概含义。

常见的转折词有：but/however/while/whereas/yet/although等。

题目：C5-TFNG判断题

Bakelite was immediately welcomed as a practical and versatile material.

原文：

Baekelite，although treated with disdain in its early years， went on to enjoy an unparalleled popularity which lasted throughout the first half of the twentieth century. It became the wonder product of the new world of industrial expansion -- the material of a thousand uses.

分析：

审题：Bakelite was immediately welcomed as a practical and versatile material.

定位词：Bakelite考点是副词修饰形容词immediately welcomed，这样我们的信息焦点就有了：看这东西是否立马受人们欢迎。

回到原文首句出现定位词，还原并简化答案句为：

although（Bakelite was）treated /with disdain/ in its early years， Bakelite went on to enjoy an unparalleled popularity即尽管早些年人们用disdain对待Bakelite，Bakelite后来受欢迎-popularity。

although为转折词，前后意义相反，disdain与popularity形成对比转折，由此可推disdain一词为“不受欢迎”这般意思（该词真实意思为鄙视，与不受欢迎差不多）。因此该题判断为False，Bakelite并非立马受欢迎，而是早些年不受人们欢迎，后来变得受欢迎。