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The pharmaceutical industry argues that because new drugs will not be developed unless heavy

development costs can be recouped in later sales, the current 20 years of protection provided by patents should be extended in the case of newly developed drugs. However, in other industries new-product development continues despite high development costs, a fact that indicates that the extension is unnecessary.

Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the pharmaceutical industry's argument against the challenge made above?

(A) No industries other than the pharmaceutical industry have asked for an extension of the 20-year limit on patent protection.

(B) Clinical trials of new drugs, which occur after the patent is granted and before the new drug can be marketed, often now take as long as 10 years to complete.

(C) There are several industries in which the ratio of research and development costs to revenues is higher than it is in the pharmaceutical industry.

(D) An existing patent for a drug does not legally prevent pharmaceutical companies from bringing to market alternative drugs, provided they are sufficiently dissimilar to the patented drug.

(E) Much recent industrial innovation has occurred in products---for example, in the computer and electronics industries---for which patent protection is often very ineffective.

哪位ＮＮ能讲讲题义（没太看懂）和推倒的过程？小弟在这里谢谢了～！

斑竹请回答一下呀～！谢谢｀！

主要意思是讲制药公司认为20年的药物版权应该继续实行在新开发的药物上面。制药公司的担心是公司投入大量的资金开发新药，到时候来不及收回成本，药物的版权就会到期。问，下面哪个理由支持了药物公司要求在新药上继续20年版权的。

B。由于新药研制好版权就下来了，而新药要通过临床才能推向市场，这个过程就要10左右。

也就是说，如果药物版权不是20年的话，新药能收回成本的时间更短，因为要扣除10年的研发临床过程。

其他选项基本不沾边。这题B选项是比较直接地支持的。

按照babypace班竹的理解。这道题的结论应该是第一句话。但是后面的however，转折说明版权延期根本就不需要。我有点懵了，我以为结论是第二句话。

怎么判断结论句？ 例如象这道题。

谢谢～了解了！ＪＥＮＮＩＦＥＲ　的意思我没有懂，我　不认为本题要找结论句，因为ＳＵＰＰＯＲＴ题要抓住要ＳＵＰＰＯＲＴ的东东就可以了～！题中不就是说Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the pharmaceutical industry's argument against the challenge made above?
那就找个例子或原因ＳＵＰＰＯＲＴ　 the pharmaceutical industry's argument 就可以啦～！

待讨论～！

jennifer说的是逻辑题里面的一个现象。在OG里面我觉得还是相对容易判断的，在GWD的题目里面，有时候不止一个arguement会出现，看问题要我们注意哪方面的。

这题主要还是集中讨论是否要保持20年的版权问题，拿其他industry来说是为了证明其他industry不需要很长时间就能收回投资的成本的。B说明了，在制药行业，情况不同。因为制研和临床就要花掉10年的功夫，从而来证明20年的版权在制药行业是有必要的。

其实题目问得就是哪个支持第一句话：supports ph industry's argument ；然后再搞清楚ph 的argument是什么，这就是结论了。

觉得这道题的背景知识有点难哩