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：
It can be inferred from the passage that the frequency with which pre-1830 cases have been cited in court decisions is an indication that
选项:
A、judicial support for patent rights was strongest in the period before 1830
B、judicial support for patent rights did not increase after 1830
C、courts have returned to judicial standards that prevailed before 1830
D、verdicts favoring patentees in patent-infringement suits did not increase after 1830
E、judicial bias against patentees persisted after 1830
答案:
B
提问：
请教张慧雯老师，这题听了之前您的录音，还有一些疑问：本题我的定位在But pre-1830 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, provided a lasting foundation for patent law.我的理解是1830前的案例为后面的专利法打好了基础，然后我当时就是觉得1830前的案例引用比例频繁代表着法庭会回去看那些案例，然后我就选了c，我应该如何纠正我这个错误的思路呢？这篇文章的难度是不是属于中库题？最近问的这两题发现都是定位的问题，我听了您之前的讲解说要从句间关系和句子的功能判断，那我在考场上如何判断什么时候根据定位点上的内容进行判断，什么时候确定是根据句间关系来判断呢（有时候局间关系看的内容不在定位点上，可能会远一点），请老师解答我的疑惑。
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这题可以定位到第34行开始，pre 1830 cases as frequently as later。因此，在b，d，e。3个after 1830的选项中选。但是，定位的句子中一直讲的是cases，根本看不出来哪里有暗示judical support。b选不出来。这篇文章看的都不知所云。
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定位到34--36行，有一个suggesting 我觉得答案应该在suggesting内容找 ---- 觉得选项 B standard和 原文foundation对应 选B 我知道我根据某个词选答案是不对的 因为词意思相似 但是句子表达意思不同 但是 我不明白为什么选 B 希望老师能讲解一下 谢谢老师
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