一些明顯的轉折詞包括but、however、yet(謂語句首)、 though、on the contrary; Although/ While/ In spite of/ Despite---,----;等，轉折詞前后的意思一般來說都是相反的，而作者往往偏重轉折處后面的內容。因此，在閱讀過程中看到轉折詞，考生最好能做上標志以方便做題時候的查找。
【試題回放2008-Text3】
The trend in sports, though, may be obscuring an unrecognized reality: Americans have generally stopped growing.
35. The text intends to tell us that
[A] the change of human height follows a cyclic pattern.
[B] human height is becoming even more predictable.
[C] Americans have reached their genetic growth limit.
