nportant; well-known; sticking out from a surface He is quite nt in his field of work 【助记】 prominence n. come into prominence崭露头角 17. refine w. make sb/sth more elegant; make pure or improve esp. by removing unwanted material eg: It is better for you to refine your article 精炼油 18. impressive a. having a strong effect or eg: I was quite impressive about how many toys you had when you were young 19. to some extent: to some degree eg: Mary was right to some extent 20. despair vi have lost all hope n. state of having lost all hope; a person who makes other people give up hope eg: After several failures, they despaired of ever winning In despair, Jack committed suicide v Reading Skills: Reading for the Main Ideas in Paragraphs As we learned in Unit 1, reading for the main ideas in paragraphs is one of the most useful reading skills we can develop and we can apply this skill to any kind of reading. Finding the main dea in a paragraph is necessary for the understanding of a piece of writing The main idea sentence most frequently appears at the beginning of a paragraph, as is clear from the following example taken from Reading Passage A Names become attached to specific images, as anyone who's been called"a plain Jane or just an average Joe"can show. The latter name particularly bothers me since my name is Joe which some think makes me more qualified to be a baseball player than, say, an art critic. Yet despite this disadvantage, I did manage to become an art critic for a time. Even so, one prominent magazine consistently refused to print Joe"in my by-line, using my first initials, J.S., instead. I suspect that if I were a more refined Arthur or Adrian, the name would have appeared complete (Para. 4, Reading Passage A, Unit 6) Main idea: Names become attached to specific images15. prominent a. important; well-known; sticking out from a surface eg: He is quite prominent in his field of work. 【助记】 prominence n. come into prominence 崭露头角 17. refine vt. make sb/sth more elegant; make pure or improve esp. by removing unwanted material eg: It is better for you to refine your article. refined oil 精炼油 18. impressive a. having a strong effect on sb eg: I was quite impressive about how many toys you had when you were young. 19. to some extent : to some degree eg: Mary was right to some extent. 20. despair vi. have lost all hope n. state of having lost all hope; a person who makes other people give up hope eg: After several failures, they despaired of ever winning. In despair, Jack committed suicide. IV Reading Skills: Reading for the Main Ideas in Paragraphs As we learned in Unit 1, reading for the main ideas in paragraphs is one of the most useful reading skills we can develop and we can apply this skill to any kind of reading. Finding the main idea in a paragraph is necessary for the understanding of a piece of writing. The main idea sentence most frequently appears at the beginning of a paragraph, as is clear from the following example taken from Reading Passage A: Names become attached to specific images, as anyone who’s been called “a plain Jane” or “just an average Joe” can show. The latter name particularly bothers me since my name is Joe, which some think makes me more qualified to be a baseball player than, say, an art critic. Yet, despite this disadvantage, I did manage to become an art critic for a time. Even so, one prominent magazine consistently refused to print “Joe” in my by-line, using my first initials, J.S., instead. I suspect that if I were a more refined Arthur or Adrian, the name would have appeared complete. (Para. 4, Reading Passage A, Unit 6) Main idea: Names become attached to specific images