第一段：Perhaps to prevent the sadness that infant death caused，a number of societal practices developed which worked against early attachment of mother and child.

第二段：One of these premodern attachment-discouraging practices was to leave infants unnamed until they had survived into the second year.…

第三段：A third practice which had the same distancing effect was wet-nursing.…

从第一段的中心句和各段的第一句不难看出，这篇文章的标题应该是Practices of Reducing Maternal Attachment.

四、逆向思维法解标题类问题

针对这类题型，考生不妨思考一下，“如果我是作者，遇到这样的标题，文章应该怎样写？”如：

(2005全国I卷B篇62题)What would be the best title for the text？

A.A Cross-country Trip

B.A Special Border Pass

C.An Unguarded Border

D.An Expensive Church Visit