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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.
According to the text, Beijing Zoo ______.
选项 A、is free from the animal abuse scandals
B、buried a dead panda in 2010
C、killed animals like hippopotamus and kangaroos
D、had a record of animal abuse
答案D
解析 选项D对应最后一段的第一句，文中提到：Beijing Zoo had its share of animal abuse scandals，意思是“北京动物园曾经有虐待动物的丑闻”，因此选项D正确。同理，选项A错误，与文意相反。选项B对应这一段的第二句，但是这一句并没有说北京动物园埋了一只死去的熊猫，而是说掩盖熊猫死亡这个消息长达3周，因此B属于偷换概念。选项C对应这一段的最后一句，文中提到，在动物园的一个餐馆中发现有河马和袋鼠供应，由这个信息不能推测出是动物园杀害了动物，因此选项C不对。
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