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Tham khảo tài liệu 'kĩ thuật ghi điểm trong toeic 10', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | -------------------------- READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS ---------------------------------------- Writers often provide clues that can help you distinguish between main ideas and their support. Here are some of the most common words and phrases used to introduce specific examples for example for instance in particular in addition furthermore some others specifically such as These signal words usually mean that a supporting fact or idea will follow. If you are having trouble finding the main idea of a paragraph try eliminating sentences that begin with these phrases. Did you notice that one of the sentences in the snake paragraph begins with one of these transitional words Topic Sentences Writers often state their main ideas in one or two sentences so that readers can be very clear about the main point of the passage. In a longer text such as an essay the main idea is often called the thesis or theme. But within a text each paragraph also has its own main idea. In fact that s the definition of a paragraph a group of sentences about the same idea. The sentence that expresses the main idea of a paragraph is called a topic sentence. The first sentence in both the immune system and snake paragraphs state their main ideas. Those sentences are therefore the topic sentences for those paragraphs. Topic sentences are often located at the beginning of paragraphs but not always. Sometimes writers begin with specific supporting ideas and lead up to the main idea. In this case the topic sentence would probably be at the end of the paragraph. Notice how we can rewrite the snake paragraph to put the topic sentence at the end of the passage There are more than 2 500 different species of snakes around the world. Only a small percentage of those species are poisonous and only a few species have venom strong enough to kill a human being. Snakes bite only 1 000-2 000 people in the United States each year and only 10 of those bites that s less than 1 result in death. Statistically many .