90. A new law gives ownership of patents—documents providing exclusive right to make and sell an invention—to
universities, not the government, when those patents result from government-sponsored university research.
Administrators at Logos University plan to sell any patents they acquire to corporations in order to fund
programs to improve undergraduate teaching.
Which of the following, if true, would cast the most doubt on the viability of the college administrators’ plan
described above?
(A) Profit-making corporations interested in developing products based on patents held by universities are
likely to try to serve as exclusive sponsors of ongoing university research projects.
(B) Corporate sponsors of research in university facilities are entitled to tax credits under new federal
tax-code guidelines.
(C) Research scientists at Logos University have few or no teaching responsibilities and participate little if at
all in the undergraduate programs in their field.
(D) Government-sponsored research conducted at Logos University for the most part duplicates research
already completed by several profit-making corporations.
(E) Logos University is unlikely to attract corporate sponsorship of its scientific research.
我选A，答案D. 觉得很疑惑：原文一开头就说了所谓patent，是documents providing exclusive right to make and sell an innovation的，怎么还能选D呢？patent能duplicate？那不是就不叫patent了吗作者: xinxiangwei 时间: 2012-12-2 20:51
谢谢楼上。
patents - documents providing exclusive right to make and sell an innovation,可能我有加入主观的判断，总觉得patent不能允许duplicate。。。
A 我是这么想的：学校卖patents是希望换取本科生教育的经费，而那些corp却只想做高校research项目的赞助商，两方想法合不到一起去，因此cast the most doubt on the viability of the college administrators' plan
再仔细一看，发现A里面是 are likely to，自己都汗死了，居然被我一晃而过地理解成了corp希望怎么怎么作者: winnielxx 时间: 2012-12-4 07:13
我也看成了
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所以读题肢一定要细致啊......作者: wswhdlp 时间: 2012-12-4 21:16
各位再仔细看文中的意思，A new law gives ownership of patents—documents providing exclusive right to make and sell an invention—to universities。整句的补充讯息是要说明一个新的法案，将给予大学制造并贩卖它的创作品 (documents providing exclusive right to make and sell an invention)，ownership of patents 主角是 ownership 不是 patents，创作品的所有权是属于学校，而非政府，所以句子后面补充了 not the government。
