问答题

Read the following text(s) and write an essay to
1) summarize the main points of the text(s),
2) make clear your own viewpoints, and
3) justify your stand.
In your essay, make full use of the information provided in the text(s). If you use more than three consecutive words from the text(s), use quotation marks(" ").
You should write 160-200 words.
There"s always one. It might be something you remember fondly from when you were a child. Or. it could be one that just resonated with you years after your first experienced it. For some, it could be the one that surprised them the most. That "one" is a favorite book, and with people reading in so many different ways today, it"s interesting to see what America"s favorite book is.
This year, same as in 2008 when The Harris Poll last asked this question, the number one book is The Bible , followed by Margaret Mitchell"s Gone with the Wind . Moving up one spot on the list to number three is J. K. Rowling"s tales of the young wizard in the Harry Potter series. Rounding out the top five favorite books are another series—J. R. R. Tolkien"s The Lord of the Rings , which drops one spot to number four—and Harper Lee"s coming of age classic To Kill a Mockingbird , which moves up two spots to number five.
Across all the various demographic groups, The Bible is the number one book, but there are definitely differences in the second favorite. Men go to fantasy, with The Lord of the Rings series being their second favorite, while for women it"s all about the Southern charm in Gone with the Wind . There is also a generational difference, with Millennials" second favorite being the Harry Potter series while for Gen Xers it"s The Lord of the Rings series. Both Baby Boomers" and Matures" second favorite is Gone with the Wind.
There is also a race/ethnicity difference. For Whites, Gone with the Wind is their second favorite book while for Blacks it is Moby Dick and for Hispanics The Great Gatsby is their second favorite book. Regionally, Gone with the Wind is both Southerners" and Midwesterners" their second favorite book, but there is a battle between wizards on the coasts. In the East, The Lord of the Rings series is the second favorite while in the West it is the Harry Potter series.