Reading Comprehension
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| Line | Because the framers of the United States |
| Constitution (written in 1787) believed that protecting | |
| property rights relating to inventions would encourage | |
| the new nation’s economic growth, they gave | |
| (5) | Congress—the national legislature—a constitutional |
| mandate to grant patents for inventions. The resulting | |
| patent system has served as a model for those in | |
| other nations. Recently, however, scholars have | |
| questioned whether the American system helped | |
| (10) | achieve the framers’ goals. These scholars have |
| contended that from 1794 to roughly 1830, American | |
| inventors were unable to enforce property rights | |
| because judges were “antipatent” and routinely | |
| invalidated patents for arbitrary reasons. This | |
| (15) | argument is based partly on examination of court |
| decisions in cases where patent holders (“patentees”) | |
| brought suit alleging infringement of their patent | |
| rights. In the 1820s, for instance, 75 percent | |
| of verdicts were decided against the patentee. | |
| (20) | The proportion of verdicts for the patentee began to |
| increase in the 1830s, suggesting to these scholars | |
| that judicial attitudes toward patent rights began | |
| shifting then. | |
| Not all patent disputes in the early nineteenth | |
| (25) | century were litigated, however, and litigated |
| cases were not drawn randomly from the | |
| population of disputes. Therefore the rate of | |
| verdicts in favor of patentees cannot be used | |
| by itself to gauge changes in judicial attitudes | |
| (30) | or enforceability of patent rights. If early judicial |
| decisions were prejudiced against patentees, one | |
| might expect that subsequent courts—allegedly | |
| more supportive of patent rights—would reject | |
| the former legal precedents. But pre-1830 | |
| (35) | cases have been cited as frequently as later |
| decisions, and they continue to be cited today, | |
| suggesting that the early decisions, many of | |
| which clearly declared that patent rights were | |
| a just recompense for inventive ingenuity, | |
| (40) | provided a lasting foundation for patent law. |
| The proportion of judicial decisions in favor of | |
| patentees began to increase during the 1830s | |
| because of a change in the underlying population | |
| of cases brought to trial. This change was partly | |
| (45) | due to an 1836 revision to the patent system: |
| an examination procedure, still in use today, was | |
| instituted in which each application is scrutinized | |
| for its adherence to patent law. Previously, | |
| patents were automatically granted upon payment | |
| (50) | of a $30 fee. |
题目：
The passage implies that the scholars mentioned in line 8 would agree with which of the following criticisms of the American patent system before 1830?
选项:
A、Its definition of property rights relating to inventions was too vague to be useful.
B、Its criteria for the granting of patents were not clear.
C、It made it excessively difficult for inventors to receive patents.
D、It led to excessive numbers of patent-infringement suits.
E、It failed to encourage national economic growth.
答案:
E
提问：
请问张慧雯老师，本题我的定位点有疑问，我的定位点：These scholars have contended that from 1794 to roughly 1830, American inventors were unable to enforce property rights because judges were “antipatent” and routinely invalidated patents for arbitrary reasons. 然后我就选了c，但是真正的定位在Constitution (written in 1787) believed that protecting property rights relating to inventions would encourage the new nation’s economic growth,请问老师在考场上这道题我应该如何找到真正的定位点呢？同时为什么本题定位点不在我前面选的那句呢？
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定位到了8行， 往下读， 发现下一句出现 from 1794 to roughly 1830 我认为和题目 before 1830对应 所以思路是在定位局之后找答案 排除 CDE --剩AB---我认为 选项A too vague to be useful. 和原文invalidated对应 ---选 A --------看了答案 我重新想了想 题目是scholars同意哪一点关于对American patent system before 1830的批判 定位句是以however开头的态度的转折句： scholars质疑American patent system 是否能实现 the framers’ goals 我要是在定位句之后找答案 实际上找的是 批判这个系统的具体原因 而文章问的是scholar批判什么 ----所以批判的内容是 the framers’ goals 在文章第一句出现 -----应该选E 应该是审题的问题 我不确定我后来分析的对不对，有从答案往回推的嫌疑， 我想请问一下老师，我事后的分析对不对？ 像这种题我怎么判断是在是在定位句之前找答案 还是定位局之后找答案 ？ 谢谢老师
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