Question 3 is based on the news report you have just heard.

News Report Two

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.

Crews have managed to provide heat packs and blankets to the miners so that 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 northeastern United States. The rock salt mine is one of three operated by Cargill with the other two in Louisiana and Ohio.

What does the news report say about the salt miners?

该题目为主旨题。根据新闻听力文本特点 —— 倒三角结构，文章主旨出现在文章的第一句话。本文首句为“Rescue efforts were underway Thursday morning for 17 miners who were stuck in an elevator below ground at a Cargill rock salt mine near Lansing”，营救 17 名矿工的工作在周四早上开展，17 名矿工被困在 Lansing 附近的 Cargill 石盐矿地下的电梯里。选项 B) They were trapped in an underground elevator，他们被困在地下电梯里，与这一信息相符合。因此，正确选项为 B。