As an exercise, try to explain why before reading the next paragraph.

作为练习，在阅读下一段之前请试着解释一下原因。

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Reading the first sentence of each paragraph before you read the whole text helps you get the main idea quickly.

在阅读全文之前，先阅读每一段的首句可以帮助你快速掌握文章大意。

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You don't just pick up a book, open it at random, and start reading in the middle of a paragraph.

你不仅仅是拾起本书，随意的翻开，并在段落的中间开始阅读。

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So this is our grade game, and what I'm going to do, since it's kind of hard to absorb all the information just by reading a paragraph of text, I'm going to make a table to record the information.

就是我们的成绩博弈,因为这么长一段文字,从中摘取信息有点困难,不如我们列表整理信息

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In re-reading the paragraph above, I realize that this is an impossible scenario.

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The book will still be available to older students, but it was removed from the 6th-grade reading list because one parent found a paragraph in the book that he believed was insulting and denigrating to Mormons, and young children should not be introduced to the religion through the book.

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