单选题
Where did the hostage-taking happen? A. Within a university campus in Houston. B. On the second floor of an engineering building. C. In a large bank situated in a busy street. D. In an apartment building in Houston.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[听力原文] Early Friday afternoon police surrounded an engineering building after receiving reports that a gunman was inside. The standoff lasted for hours, then SWAT teams heard a gun shot and they decided to enter the building. On the second floor, they found that the gunman had shot himself in the head. They also saw that a male hostage had been killed by a shot to the chest. Another hostage, a woman, was unharmed, but had been restrained with duct tape. Captain Dwayne Ready is a spokesperson with the Houston Police. "We're working with the FBI to do a thorough investigation and we're gonna leave it up to the investigators from this point." NASA officials say that Mission Control and its space operations were not affected by the incident.
本题的出题点在新闻事件中的地点状语处(On the second floor)。新闻提到，事件的发生地是施工建筑的二楼，故选B。
单选题
What did SWAT team find after entering the building? A. Three people were found dead in this event. B. A male hostage had been killed by a shot in the head. C. The gunman killed himself with the gun. D. An injured woman hostage had been restrained with duct tape for hours.