原题
The desirability of minimizing the use of adverbs, especially those ending in -ly (e.g., "obediently"), in prose fiction is a point of agreement among many novelists, including Graham Greene, who described adverbs as "damaging to a writer." To investigate whether -ly adverb avoidance is associated with literary achievement, statistician Ben Blatt calculated the frequency with which such adverbs occur in the works of E.M. Forster and other prominent English-language novelists and found that there is a positive correlation between low -ly adverb frequency and novels' perceived literary merit.
Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?
AIt makes a claim about a trait of prose fiction, details an observation about that trait's increasing proliferation, and then makes a supposition based on that observation.
BIt mentions a popular strategy for crafting prose fiction, outlines a benefit of that strategy, and then presents research that provides a more nuanced view of that benefit.
CIt describes a phenomenon inherent to prose fiction, summarizes a procedure used to investigate that phenomenon, and then notes a benefit of that procedure.
DIt introduces a widely held view on prose fiction, offers an example of what a proponent of that view has asserted, and then discusses a study examining data relevant to that view.
正确答案：D
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