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most likely appears in the beginning (especially the first and/or second sentence) and at the end of the paragraph, 4. In a very few hours, we found ourselves accepting and internalizing the superficial and prejudiced judgments of ourselves that prevailed among the people we met; … (L48) We used to feel that it’s wrong to say people all judge others by appearance. But now we firmly believe it’s right. 我们曾经认为流行在我们周围的人当中的看法是肤浅且带有偏见的。仅仅几个小时后，我们发现自己已接受这一观点并深信不疑。 * * * * * * * * Reading Skills New words and expressions Text Test Yourself Reading Skill Exercises Reading for the Main Idea in Paragraphs Reading Skills helps get the whole picture of the text and skip the less important details, thus improving your reading speed, and helps predict or better understand the rest of the text. ? ? ? A standard criticism of sociological research is that it goes to great lengths to prove what most people with common sense already know. Without exactly taking sides for or against that criticism, I want to describe a sociological exercise that might seem to validate it—except that, for me and a classmate (and maybe for some who read this account), the experience made a common claim come alive. Main idea: I want to describe a sociological experiment. Finding Out the Main Idea of Each Paragraph Reading Skills During spring break from a local college, my friend and I went downtown to shop. First, however, we made ourselves virtually unrecognizable to our friends and even to our families. We wore clothing slightly inappropriate for the weather, clean but not ironed, clearly not the styles worn by most visitors to the area. We carried plastic bags of nameless possessions. Both of us were slightly untidy. My friend wore a faded cotton shirt over a T-shirt and a wrinkled skirt over sweat pants. I wore a wool hat that concealed my hair and an unfashionable coat and glasses with sun shades that clip on. Main idea: My friend and I dressed so that no one would recogn