【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] In several metropolitan areas, from Miami to Riverside, Calif., where the real estate market is white hot, rapidly rising prices are luring a growing number of ordinary people into buying and selling residences they do not intend to occupy, despite warnings from some economists that prices cannot continue to rise as steeply as they have in the last few years. [分析] 比较结构的理解和判断。 根据原文，美国的几所大城市房地产市场白热化，房价急剧上升诱使越来越多的普通人投入到房产买卖中，而不顾经济学家们的警告。一些经济学家们说prices cannot continue to rise as steeply as they have in the last few years 即房价不可能继续像过去几年那样飙升了。由此可见，D的说法与原文意思相符。 [解题关键] 正确理解as...as结构的含义是解题的关键。

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] There is some evidence that the foreign firm affiliates in this country have developed rapidly without having a decisive effect on the technological capacities and export competitiveness of the country's local firms. The local content of processed exports and evolution of domestic exports tend to indicate that there are limited linkages between the two. [分析] 特定信息的找寻和判断。 关于外国公司子公司和当地公司的关系，原文认为外国公司子公司在该国发展迅速但 without having a decisive effect on the technological capacities and export competitiveness of the country's local firms即对当地公司技术能力和出口竞争力没有发挥决定性影响。由此可见，选项D的内容与原文含义相符。 [解题关键] 掌握同义词替换。本题中原文without having a decisive effect on 与选项D中have hardly exerted any positive influence on意思相当。

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] Acting on a tip off -- the police tried to raid a hall where students were taking the college entrance exam last month. They were blocked by teachers but later confiscated mobile phones that had been smuggled into the room -- and uncovered what they said was an elaborate cheating system. The brightest students known as "players" finished their multiple choice papers quickly then sent off the answers by text message to younger students outside the hall. They forwarded the information to others who paid up to 1,000 dollars to take part. [分析] 语义的理解和判断。 关于这次考试作弊案的情况，根据原文They were blocked by teachers but later confiscated mobile phones可知，警察被教师们阻挡在考试大厅之外，但后来警察们还是没收了用于考试作弊的手机，由此可见，选项A、C的说法与原文相符；又根据原文The brightest students... finished their multiple choice papers quickly then sent off the answers by text message to younger students outside the hall．They forwarded the information to others who paid up to 1,000 dollars to take part 可知，考场里最聪明的学生将多项选择试卷中的答案做出后，将答案输在手机上，以短信形式发给考场外年纪小一点的学生手中，那里，这些学生再将短信转发给已付过一千美元的人，由此可见，C项说法与原文相符，而只有D项“一些考试者将答案转发给已付过钱的人”说法与原文“考场外年轻一些的学生手中”不符，因此该项为正确答案。 [解题关键] 理解复杂句各部分内容的含义。

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] It was the first presidential election in nine years, made necessary after the death of Mr. Arafat on November 11. Despite being held under Israeli occupation, the voting was judged by international observers to be generally free and fair, with little interference from Israel, which eased travel restrictions on Palestinians and largely halted military activity in the territories. [分析] 语义的理解和判断。 关于这次选举，原文说虽然巴勒斯坦仍在以色列的占领中，但据国际观察家的判断，该选举总的来说是自由公正的。以色列没有对该选举进行干涉，且放宽对了巴勒斯坦人的旅行禁令，并暂时停止了在该地区的军事活动。由此可见，上述内容均有助于这次选举的顺利进行，A、C和D项均与原文相符，只有B项内容“以色列帮助在选举中维持秩序”原文未提。 [解题关键] 将原文重点表达进行归类，进行判断。本题原文中的free and fair，little， eased和halted虽词性不同，但都与题干中contribute to“有助于……”意思相关，由此可顺利解题。

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] The orthodox explanation of where Columbus first landed was carved in textbook stone more than 40 years ago by the dean of Columbus historians, Samuel Elliot Morrison. Morrison declared incontrovertible the evidence that Columbus first set foot on Watling Island in the eastern Bahamas. But if the question were closed for Professor Morrison, now dead, it was not for numerous other people on nautical history. [分析] 观点态度的找寻和判断。 原文首先提出历史学家Samuel Elliot Morrison 已对Columbus 在新大陆何地登陆定论，但讲话者却认为it was not for numerous other people on nautical history即研究航海史的其他学者们却不这样认为。由此可见，选项D的内容与原文相符，因此该项为正确答案。 [解题关键] 掌握信号词的用法。原文中讲话者使用But表明其后内容为自己的观点，是全段的中心内容。