标题: [求助]A CR Q asked for explanation!!! [打印本页] 作者: fernandochang 时间: 2003-4-7 04:27 标题: [求助]A CR Q asked for explanation!!! Could somebody tell me why? THANKS~
7.In countries in which new life-sustaining drugs cannot be patented, such drugs are sold at widely affordable prices; those same drugs, where patented, command premium prices because the patents shield patent-holding manufacturers from competitiors. These facts show that future access to new life-sustaining drugs can be improved if the practice of granting patents on newly developed life-sustaining drugs were to be abolished everywhere.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
(A)In countries in which life-sustaining drugs cannot be patented, their manufacture is nevertheless a profitable enterprise. (B)Countries that do not currently grant patents on life-sustaining drug are, for the most part, countries with large populations. (C)In some countries specific processes for the manufacture of pharmaceutical drug can be patented even in cases in which the drugs themselves cannot be patented. (D)Pharmaceutical companies can afford the research that goes into the development of new drugs only if patents allow them to earn high profits. (E)Countries that grant patents on life-sustaining drugs almost always ban their importation from countries that do not grant such patents. (A 作者: nobody 时间: 2003-4-7 11:48
我选D，提干说没有专利保护的好处，卖价合理，新药获得有保证，要求削弱，D说只有在专利保护下，制药公司才能赚足够的钱承受新药的研发。言外之意，有专利保护才好。 A，E加强，B，C无关。作者: cranberry 时间: 2003-4-7 21:37
同意，一旦D成立，则新药的研制有问题，后面结论的大家都有药的想法就不成了。作者: Bensontuo 时间: 2019-8-21 18:42
fernandochang 发表于 2003-4-7 04:27
Could somebody tell me why? THANKS~7.In countries in which new life-sustaining drugs cannot be paten ...
Spot the question type: Weaken
Core of the argument
If no patent were to be abolished everywhere, future access to new life sustaining drugs can be improved.
Premises: The price of non patent drug is lower than the price of patent drugs.
A. Seems supportable, but it is actually not relevant.
B. Non relevant
C. Non relevant
D. Well, without the patents, drugs can't be developed. Perfectly weaken the argument
