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(3) Rescue efforts were underway Thursday morning for 17 miners who were stuck in an elevator below ground at Cargill rock salt mine near Lansing, New York, according to Marcia Lynch, public information officer with Tompkins County's Emergency Response Department. Emergency workers have made contact with the miners via a radio, and they all appear to be uninjured, said Jessica Verfuss, the emergency department's assistant director.
(4) Crews have managed to provide heat packs and blankets to the miners so that they can keep warm during the rescue operation, Verfuss said. Details about what led to the workers' being trapped in the elevator weren't immediately available. The mine, along New York's Cayuga Lake, processes salt used for road treatment. It produces about 2 million tons of salt that is shipped to more than 1, 500 places in the northeasten United States. The rock salt mine is one of three operated by Cargill, with the other two in Louisiana and Ohio.
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预览两道题各选项,由选项中的 lost contact, trapped, underground elevator, calls for help repair, supplies和 miners等词可以推测,新闻内容与矿工受困以及对他们的救援工作有关。
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3. What does the news report say about the salt miners?
B)。
(详解)新闻开头便提到,周四上午,纽约州兰辛镇附近的嘉吉岩盐矿中,有17名矿工被困在了地下电 梯里,救援工作正在进行当中。因此答案为B)。
4. What did the rescue team do?
C)。
(详解)新闻中提到,救援人员已经想办法为受困矿工提供了保暖袋和毛毯,好让矿工可以在救援工作 进行期间保持温暖。因此答案为C)。