[填空题]Hostage situations are usually in tremendous disorder, so there are no obvious stages in them,

[填空题]Hostage situations are usually in tremendous disorder, so there are no obvious stages in them,

[填空题]In all hostage situations, the hostage-taker invariably wants something and the real target is a third party.

[填空题]After they get the hostages, the hostage-takers usually declare their demands during the negotiation phase.

[单项选择]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.

[单项选择]How many persons were killed in the hostage crisis
A. 5.
B. 6.
C. 7.
D. 8.

[填空题]A hostage situation is further worsened by the fact that bystanders could be hurt by stray bullets.

[填空题]Negotiators, push the hostage-taker’s deadlines, or shift his attention to unimportant details in order to ______.

[单项选择]When you think of the tremendous technological progress we have made, it’s amazing how little we have developed in other respects. We may speak contemptuously of the poor old Romans because they relished the orgies of slaughter that went on in their arenas. We may despise them because they mistook these goings on for entertainment. We may forgive them condescendingly because they lived 2000 years ago and obviously knew no better. But are our feelings of superiority really justified Are we any less bloodthirsty Why do boxing matches, for instance, attract such universal interest Don’t the spectators who attend them hope they will see some violence Human beings remain as bloodthirsty as ever they were. The only difference between ourselves and the Romans is that while they were honest enough to admit that they enjoyed watching hungry lions tearing people apart and eating them alive, we find all sorts of sophisticated arguments to defend sports which should have been banned long ago; spor
A. to compare the old Romans with today’s people
B. to give an example
C. to show human beings in the past knew nothing better
D. to indicate human beings used to be bloodthirsty

[单项选择]

B 　　When you think of the tremendous technological progress we have made, it’s amazing how little we have developed in other respects. We may speak contemptuously of the poor old Romans because they relished the orgies of slaughter that went on in their arenas. We may despise them because they mistook these goingson for entertainment. We may forgive them condescendingly because they lived 2000 years ago and obviously knew no better. But are our feelings of superiority really justified Are we any less bloodthirsty Why do boxing matches, for instance, attract such universal interest Don’t the spectators who attend them hope they will see some violence Human beings remain as bloodthirsty as ever they were. The only difference between ourselves and the Romans is that while they were honest enough to admit that they enjoyed watching hungry lions tearing people apart and eating them alive, we find all sorts of sophisticated arguments to defend sports which should have been
A. not very high
B. high
C. contemptuous
D. critical