参考答案：D

解析：[听力原文]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。