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If you look for a book as a present for a child, you will be spoiled for choice even in a year when there is no new Harry Potter. J. K. Rowling's intelligence is not alone - the past decade has been a harvest for good children's books, which has set off a large quantity of films and an increased sales of classics such as The Lord of the Rings.
Yet despite that, reading is increasingly unpopular among children. [12] According to statistics in 1997，23% said they didn't like reading at all. In 2003,35% did. And around 6% of children leave primary school each year unable to read properly.
Maybe the decline is caused by the increasing availability of computer games. Maybe the books' boom has affected only the top of the educational pile.Either way, Chancellor Cordon Brown plans to change things for the bottom of the class. In his pre-budget report, he announced the national project of Reading Recovery to help the children struggling most.
[13] Reading Recovery is aimed at six-year olds, who receive four months of individual daily half-hour classes with a specially-trained teacher. An evaluation earlier this year reported that children in schools made 20 months' progress in just one year， whereas similarly weak readers without special help made just five months' progress, and so ended the year even further below the level expected for their age.
International research tends to find that when British children leave primary school they read well,but read text often for fun more than those elsewhere.[14] Reading for fun matters because children who are keen on reading can report lifelong pleasure and loving books is an excellent indicator of future educational success. According to the OECD, being a regular and enthusiastic reader is of great advantage.
【预测】选项中重复出现的children，read，number以及huge percentage，minority表明．本题可能考查儿童阅读的趋势。
【解析】C。短文中提到，现在阅读在儿童中越来越不受欢迎了，接着举出两组数据，其中提到According to statistics in 1997，23％said they didn’t like reading at all．和in 2003，35％did．，由此可知，1997年的数据是为说明前面提到的越来越多的儿童对阅读不感兴趣，C是对此意的同义转述，故答案为C。