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Walking through my train yesterday, staggering from my seat to the buffet an

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问题     Walking through my train yesterday, staggering from my seat to the buffet and back, I counted five people reading Harry Potter novels. Not children-these were real grown-ups reading children’s books.
    Maybe that would have been understandable. If these people had jumped whole-heartedly into a second childhood it would have made more sense. But they were card-carrying grown-ups with laptops and spreadsheets returning from sales meetings and seminars. Yet they chose to read a children’s book.
    I don’t imagine you’ll find this headcount exceptional. You can no longer get on the London Tube and not see a Harry Potter book. Nor is it just the film; these throwback readers were out there in droves long before the movie campaign opened.
    So who are these adult readers who have made JK Rowling the second-biggest female earner in Britain(after Madonna)? As I have tramped along streets knee-deep in Harry Potter paperbacks, I’ve mentally slotted them into three groups.
    First come the Never-Readers, whom Harry has enticed into opening a book. Is this a bad thing? Probably not. Writing has many advantages over film, but it can never compete with its magnetic punch. If these books can re-establish the novel as a thrilling experience for some people, then this can only be for the better. If it takes obsession-level hype to lure them into a bookshop, that’s fine by me. But will they go on to read anything else? Again, we can only hope.
    The second group are the Occasional Readers. These people claim that tiredness, work and children allow them to read only a few books a year. Yet now—to be part of the crowd, to say they’ve read it—they put Harry Potter on their oh-so-select reading list. It’s infuriating, and maddening. Yes, I’m a writer myself, currently writing difficult, unreadable, hopefully unsettling novels, but there are so many other good books out there, so much rewarding, enlightening, enlarging works of fiction for adults; and yet these sad cases are swept along by the hype, the faddism, into reading a children’s book.
    The third group are the Regular Readers, for whom Harry is sandwiched between McEwan(英国当代作家)and Balzac, Roth(德国现代诗人)and Dickens. This is the real baffler—what on earth do they get out of reading it? Why bother? But if they call rattle through it in a week just to say they ve been there—like going to Longleat(郎利特山庄英国名胜)or the Eiffel Tower—the worst they’re doing is encouraging others. [br] What’s the passage mainly about?
选项 A、The worldwide popularity of Harry Potter.
B、Adults benefiting from reading Harry Potter.
C、The origin of Harry Potter as a children’s book.
D、Reflections on Harry Potter’s popularity among adults.
答案 D
解析 本题主要考查对文章主旨大意的理解。文章首先揭示了《哈利·波特》在成人中比较流行的一种现状，然后对《哈利·波特》的三种成人读者进行分类，分析他们读《哈利·波特》的原因，表现了作者对这三类读者的批评态度，所以D项“《哈利·波特》在成人读者中流行的反响”符合题意。A项“《哈利·波特》在世界范围内的流行”，这只是文中开头部分介绍的内容，不全面；B项“成人从《哈利·波特》的阅读中获得益处”，文中没有对益处作详细介绍；C项“《哈利·波特》作为儿童读物的起源”，文中没有相关内容，所以这三项都不符合题意。
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