Lentifying Main Ideas
What is the main idea of paragraph 2?
What is the main idea of paragraph 3?
One day, I was sitting in my house, in Namibia,
eading a U.S. newspaper on my cell phone.
b] Oh, I should backtrack for a minute here. Yes, Africa
as cell phones. In fact, every Peace Corps volunteer in
amibia has a cell phone, as well as every adult
amibian I knew, and most teenagers. Cell phone
overage reaches every major town in Namibia, and most
f the minor ones, as well—even small villages.
B] And this isn't only Namibia. Cell phones are
verywhere in Africa and even though one in four
fricans has a cell phone, you rarely see anyone talking
n them-you see, it's simply too expensive. Instead,
veryone is text messaging. Text messaging, you see, is
ery cheap. For $10 U.S. dollars you can walk into a shop
Namibia, and walk out with a cell phone-not a very
ice one, mind you, but a fully functional one-that has
nough prepaid credit to send 100 text messages a day for
hree months
✓ Done
) Intro
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