考研英语的正确答案设定有时比较抽象，或者与长难句密切相关，难以理解，所以很难做出选择，又或者排除两个，在剩下的两个之间举棋不定， 详细内容请看下文考研英语阅读方法。

一个最为核心的解题原则就是“细节服从主旨”。我们来看一道英语真题实例：

Why, then, are virtually all of these critics forgotten? Neville Cardus, who wrote for the Manchester Guardian from 1917 until shortly before his death in 1975, is now known solely as a writer of essays on the game of cricket. During his lifetime, though, he was also one of England’s foremost classical-music critics, a stylist so widely admired that his Autobiography (1947) became a best-seller. He was knighted in 1967, the first music critic to be so honored. Yet only one of his books is now in print, and his vast body of writings on music is unknown save to specialists. How is it possible that so celebrated a critic should have slipped into near-total obscurity?

24. What can be learned about Cardus according to the last two paragraphs?

A. His music criticism may not appeal to readers today.

B. His reputation as a music critic has long been in dispute.

C. His style caters largely to modern specialists.

D. His writings fail to follow the amateur tradition.