【答案解析】[解析] Dozens of valuable paintings and frescoes were badly damaged when rainwater poured through a roof at the state museum. As freak rainstorms lashed in the central and southern sections of the state, part of the museum's roof which was scheduled to be repaired collapsed and water cascaded into two storerooms.
【答案解析】[解析] Aheater is using convection when it warms the air in a room. And the air in turn warms the people and objects in the room. Ahot water radiator, a stove and forced air furnace are all convection heaters. A quartz heater, on the other hand, heats the objects and people in a room without heating the air. It does this by producing radiation heat that travels like light waves. The radiation is then directed at objects by means of a reflector.
[分析] 原文介绍了几种散热器，其中重点介绍了quartz heater(石英散热器)。在描述该物时，说话者介绍“A quartz heater，on the other hand，heats the objects and people in a room without heating the air．”即“而石英散热器在温暖房中的人和物时，却不会加热房中的空气”，选项A的说法与原文相符，因此是正确答案。 [解题关键] 识别信号词有助于迅速解题。文中谈到几种传统的散热器后使用了短语on the other hand这个表对比的词组来介绍石英散热器，由此可推测该物与前面提到的散热器肯定不同，通过背景常识，可帮助我们迅速猜测选项A有可能是正确答案。
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] Cool climate vegetables like asparagus are now able to be grown in places as hot as Hawaii. Marine engineers have been able to actually convince such vegetables that they are living in cooler climates. That way they grow faster and taste better. What these engineers have been using is very simply cold seawater. They place pipes in the soil and cold water flowing through them cools the earth. This stimulates plant growth and enables gardeners in tropical climates to grow crops from cooler climates.
[分析] 语义的推理和判断。 文章占用大量篇幅详细而具体地介绍了在炎热地区种植耐寒作物芦笋。 最后文章总结道“This stimulates plant growth and enables gardeners in tropical climates to grow crops from cooler climates．”即“这种做法刺激了植物种植业，也使得热带地区的农户可种植耐寒作物”，由此可推测，农作物可在其非传统气候条件下种植成为可能，因此选项C的说法是正确的。 [解题关键] 善于通过文中的具体事例做出正确的总结，如cool climate vegetable种植在hot或tropical地区，可总结为选项C中的crops in nontraditional climates。
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] Mass transportation revised the social and economic fabric of the American city in three fundamental ways. It catalyzed physical expansion, it sorted out people and land uses, and it accelerated the inherent instability of urban life.
[分析] 语义的判断理解。 根据原文可知，mass transportation从三方面影响了美国人民的生活：1)it catalyzed physical expansion(使面积迅速扩展)，可与选项A对应；2)it sorted out people and land use(将土地使用分类)，可与选项B对应；3)it accelerated the inherent instability of urban life(加速城市生活中内在的不稳定性)，可与选项C对应，由此可见，只有选项D在原文中没有对应关系，因此，该项是正确答案。 [解题关键] 掌握原文关键词语的正确解释，尤其注意抽象短语的具体化，如原文提到的受到影响的三种方式都使用了抽象的表达，而选项A、B、C均分别是它们的具体解释。
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] Ubix is a publicly traded corporation actively traded on the NASDAQ. The company was launched in 1999. Shareholders own more than 80% of the company while upper level management and employee stock options own the remaining 20%. Ubix is located in Denver, Colorado with manufacturing plants in Taiwan and Indonesia. The total cash flow during 2000 was $365 million.
[分析] 特定信息的找寻和判断。 根据题干中的关键词，可将听的重点放在原文第一句“Ubix is a publicly traded corporation actively traded on the NASDAQ．”可立即找出答案为选项A。 [解题关键] 排除干扰项是迅速解题的关键。该文详细具体介绍了Ubix的各方面情况，如成立时间，股份持有情况，公司总部地址和公司业绩等信息，这要求听者一定要抓住题干中的关键词来判断哪个是相关信息。抓住此题中短语be traded on是解题的关键。