Which narrative point of view is shown in the passage?
The woman's arms are still thrown wide, and you realize she has not paused, that her
voice alone has changed the air, and when she goes on, "Welcome to the Circus
Tresaulti!" you applaud like your life depends on it, without knowing why.
From Genevieve Valentine, Mechanique:

first person
second person
third person limited
third person omniscient

B). Second person.

Explanation:

Point-of-view or perspective plays a vital role in determining how the audience is going to perceive a text as it proffers a framework through which they are able to associate and understand the text.

The second-person point of view is elucidated as the perspective in which the readers are given the role of a character denoted by the pronoun 'you' and to whom the narrator addresses.

In the given passage, 'second person' point of view is employed which is clearly reflected by the use of the pronoun 'you' which implies that the readers have been provided with a key role to play in the narrative and inculcate opinions('you applaud like your life depends on it'). It assists the readers to imagine and connect to the story which makes them elicit desired emotions or response as intended by the author. Thus, option B is the correct answer.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.