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On the west side of the island of Manhattan in New York City, tree by tree, leaf by leaf, a 2,500 square foot sector of the Cent

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问题     On the west side of the island of Manhattan in New York City, tree by tree, leaf by leaf, a 2,500 square foot sector of the Central African Republic’s Dzanga Ndoki Rainforest has been transported to, or recreated at, the American Museum of Natural History’s new hall of biodiversity (生物多样性). When the hall opens this May, visitors will visit one of the world’s biggest and most accurate reproduction of one of nature’s most threatened creations.
    To bring the rainforest to New York, a team of nearly two dozen scientists — the largest collecting expedition the museum has ever organized for an exhibit — spent five weeks in the African rainforest collecting soil, plants, and leaves; recording and documenting species; studying trees; shooting videotape and still photos; and interviewing local people. "This area has been explored very little," says Hoel Cracraft who estimates that the museum will eventually collect 150 to 180 mammals, more than 300 species of birds, hundreds of butterflies, and hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of organisms. The exhibition may even have produced a special prize -scientists suspect they have uncovered several new species.
    To give the forest a sense of realness, the back wall of the exhibit is an enormous video-screen, sounds will come out from hidden speakers, and plans even call for forest smells. Computer controls will vary the effects so that no two walkthroughs (排练) will ever be exactly the same.
    After the team returned to New York, the forest was reproduced with the help of the computer. Computer modeling programs plotted distances and special relationships. Artists studied photos and brought what they saw to life. Plaster (熟石膏), trees were made. Recreated animals began to stand in the rainforest of the hall. Flying creatures will hang from the ceiling. The light in the forest — one of the exhibit’s cleverest re-creations — will seem real. Long tube lights will have the correct color and temperature to produce a natural effect. The plants and animals exhibited throughout the hall exist naturally in a perfect balance — remove one, and the whole is imperfect if not endangered. The exhibit is proof to the hope that the world’s rainforests will never exist solely as a carefully preserved artifact (人工制品).
What does the last sentence of the passage most probably mean?
选项 A、The rainforest in the Central African Republic will be preserved forever.
B、The well-designed exhibit will be preserved as an artifact.
C、The exhibit reflects the hope that natural rainforests will be well preserved.
D、The exhibit of the rainforest in the museum is the sole one in the world.
答案C
解析 可定位在文章最后一句：The exhibit is proof to the hope that the world’s rainforestswill never exist solely as a carefully preserved artifact．该句点出了在博物馆展出雨林的目的，希望自然界的雨林不会消失，这个雨林展览也就不会成为自然界雨林唯一的人工复制品，故选项C是最接近原意的选项。选项A中非共和国的雨林将被永久保留，在文中并未提及；选项B、C均是对文章最后一句话的片面曲解，故最佳答案为C。
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