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A mace-wielding clown lashes at a bear cub. An elephant stands on its rear legs on the point of a stun gun, electric arcs runnin

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问题     A mace-wielding clown lashes at a bear cub. An elephant stands on its rear legs on the point of a stun gun, electric arcs running through its body.
    These and dozens of other images featured at a poster exhibition in Beijing are meant to shock, so that hopefully visitors will go home with the message the organizers want them to remember: animal performance is cruel, and people can help end it by not watching.
    "Not Born to Perform," which runs until April 15, is yet another anticruelty campaign by Animals Asia Foundation. Except this time, seeking a venue to display the posters, the animal welfare group has teamed up with an unlikely partner, the city’s oldest and perhaps best-known zoo.
    "By agreeing to host the exhibition on their premises, Beijing Zoo has set a precedent for all other zoological gardens in China," said Pei Xin, the senior animal welfare officer of Animals Asia. "We hope more zoos will join it in making such an outstanding commitment to ending animal performance."
    The exhibition may help educate "zoo managers on why animal performances stifle the expression of normal behavior and that is just not right," said Zhang Jinguo, the deputy curator of the Beijing Zoo. It also tells visitors that "novelty and thrill isn’t always cool," he said.
    The partnership illustrates the long way Chinese zoos have come in a continuing debate, sometimes laden with high-stake confrontations, over the welfare of wild animals in captivity. "As recently as 2010, mentioning the issue of animal performance was a sure-fire way to be excluded and ignored by zoos and animal facilities," Dave Neale, Animal Asia’s animal welfare director, said in an emailed statement.
    About 50 percent of urban zoos, 91 percent of the wildlife parks and 89 percent of the aquariums in China were still operating recreational animal shows, China Zoo Watch, a volunteer-based group that documents alleged abuses, found in 2012, after monitoring over 40 facilities across the country.
    Even the Beijing Zoo, in its 107 years as a public zoo, had its share of animal abuse scandals. In July 2010, the zoo was found to have covered up the death of a panda for three weeks. Earlier the same year, news that a zoo restaurant served non-indigenous animals including hippopotamus and kangaroos subjected the zoo to public ridicule.
The images of animal performance are exhibited to ______.
选项 A、feature a poster in Beijing
B、hope the visitors can remember them
C、call on people to end animal performance by realizing its cruelty
D、forbid people to watch them
答案C
解析 选项C对应第二段这句话的后半部分，文中提到，做动物表演的形象展是为了让人们回家后还能记住：动物表演很残忍，我们可以通过行动来结束动物表演活动。因此，选项C正确。选项A是这一段的前半部分照抄过来的信息，并不是办动物表演形象展的目的，而是途径，因此所答非所问。根据正确答案的解释，让人们记住这些内容不是真正的目的，真实目的是要结束动物表演，所以选项B错误。选项D对应的是这个自然段最后给出的信息，它只是呼吁人们结束动物表演的一个手段，而不是题目要求的目的。
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