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It is getting harder to go anywhere without stepping on a piece of Lego-related hype. The Lego Movie is number two at the Americ

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问题     It is getting harder to go anywhere without stepping on a piece of Lego-related hype. The Lego Movie is number two at the American box office, after three weeks at number one. Model kits related to the film are piled high in the shops. They will add to the already gigantic heap of Lego bits: 86 for every person on the planet. The toymaker has enjoyed ten years of spectacular growth, almost quadrupling its revenue.
    This is remarkable for many reasons. Lego’ s home town, Billund in rural Denmark, is so small that the company had to provide it with a hotel—an elegant one, unsurprisingly. The toy business is one of the world’ s trickiest: perennially faddish and, at the moment, convulsed by technological innovation. Children are growing up ever faster, and abandoning the physical world for the virtual. To cap it all, the company almost collapsed in 2003-04, having drifted for years, diversifying into too many areas, producing too many products and, in a fit of desperation, flirting with becoming a lifestyle company, with Lego-branded clothes and watches.
    Lego’ s decade of success began when it appointed Jorgen Vig Knudstorp as chief executive. Mr. Knudstorp decreed that the company must go back to the brick: focusing on its core products, forgetting about brand-stretching, and even selling its theme parks. He also brought in stricter management controls, for example reducing the number of different pieces that the company produced from 12,900 to 7,000.
    Under Mr. Knudstorp Lego has struck a successful balance between innovation and tradition. The company has to generate new ideas to keep its sales growing: customers need a reason to expand their stock of bricks, and to buy them from Lego rather than cheaper rivals. Lego produces a stream of kits with ready-made designs, such as forts and spaceships, to provide children with templates. But it also insists that the pieces can be added to the child’ s collection of bricks, and reused to make all sorts of other things.
    Lego has got better at managing its relationships. The Lego Movie demonstrates how it can focus on the brick while venturing into the virtual world: Warner Bros, made the film while Lego provided the models. It has also got better at tapping its legion of fans—particularly adult fans of Lego, or AFOLs—for new ideas.
    Lego is now at an inflection point, building its organisational capacity and embracing globalisation, to help it find new sources of growth. The aim is twofold: to replicate in the rapidly growing east Lego’ s success in the west; and to transform a local company that happened to go global into a global company that happens to have its head office in Billund.
The first paragraph is used to demonstrate
选项 A、the pervasiveness of Lego-related hype.
B、the popularity of The Lego Movie.
C、the gigantic heap of Lego bits.
D、the spectacular growth of Lego.
答案D
解析 根据题干关键词定位到第一段。本段简要介绍了乐高公司的成就。A项“与乐 高有关的宣传广告无处不在”，B项“《乐高大电影》的流行”，C项“巨大的乐高积木堆”，这 都是表面信息。作者通过这些是想说明乐高公司的玩具如今有多么流行，乐高公司取得的 成就有多么了不起，因此D项“乐高的惊人增长”才是作者的真正目的。D项为正确答案。
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